Collected Works of Erasmus: Controversies, Volume 72

by Erasmus

In 1520, the reading public witnessed the eruption of a simmering conflict between Erasmus, the foremost advocate of the new biblical humanism, and Edward Lee, a younger scholar at the University of Louvain and spokesman for the traditionalists in matters of biblical interpretation and church discipline. When Erasmus (perhaps unconsciously) subsumed criticisms Lee had sent to him of his 1516 Annotations on the New Testament into the second edition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802038360
• ISBN13: 9780802038364
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 488 Pages