Erasmus of Rotterdam
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Erasmus of Rotterdam

Advocate of a New Christianity

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Advocate of a New Christianity

About this book

Combining a biography of Erasmus with the larger theological debates and the intellectual history of his time, Christine Christ-von Wedel reveals many of previously unexplored influences on Erasmus, as well as his influences on his contemporaries.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. One. Introduction
  4. Part One. Erasmus’s Early Development
  5. Two. Yearning for the ā€œGolden Ageā€
  6. Three. Historical Awareness
  7. Four. Neoplatonism
  8. Five. Erasmus’s Edition of Lorenzo Valla’s Collatio Novi Testamenti
  9. Fix. The Praise of Folly
  10. Part Two. The Exegetical Theologian
  11. Seven. The New Testament Scholar
  12. Eight. The Paraphrast
  13. Nine. How the Trinity Is Known
  14. Ten. On the Doctrine of Creation
  15. Eleven. On the Doctrine of God
  16. Twelve. On the Doctrine of Justification
  17. Thirteen. Handling of Doctrine
  18. Part Three. In Conflict with the Church Reformers
  19. Fourteen The Argument with Luther
  20. Fifteen. Erasmus and the Reformers in Zurich and Basel
  21. Part Four. Erasmus’s Reform Ideas
  22. Sixteen. The Question of Law
  23. Seventeen. The Question of Peace
  24. Eighteen. Erasmus’s Views on Women
  25. Nineteen. Conclusion: Erasmus as Advocate of a New Christianity
  26. Abbreviations
  27. Notes
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index of Erasmus’s Works
  30. Index of Scriptural Passages
  31. General Index