Controversies

by Erasmus, Desiderius

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Title Statements

Full title :Controversies. / edited by Jane E. Phillips ; translated by Erika Rummel ; annotated by István Bejczy, Jane E. Phillips, and Erika Rummel.

Summary

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 (1519) without properly crediting their source, Lee resorted to publication of his collection of criticisms. Erasmus responded immediately with the Apologia which is neither arrogant nor biting nor angry nor aggressive, and which responds to the two invectives of Edward Lee, describing his version of the history of the dispute with Lee, and less than two months later produced Responses to Lee's criticisms. This new volume in the Collected Works of Erasmus series contains the first-ever English translations of the Apology and the Responses. These two pieces display Erasmus the humanist in the thick of academic turmoil, deploying all the rhetorical weapons at his command. The volume is an entertaining and informative look into Erasmus as a scholar and as a man.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2005

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
Place of Publication:Toronto
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2005

The Physical Object

Description:xxxvii, 449 pages : : illustration ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0802038360, 9780802038364
oclc:on1302215482
LC Classification:PA8502.E5
Dewey Decimal:199/.492

Introduction -- Erasmus' Biblical text -- Biblical passages discussed in Erasmus' Response to the annotations of Edward Lee -- An apologia in response to the two invectives of Edward Lee = Apologia qua respondet duabus invectivis Eduardi Lei -- A response to the annotations of Edward Lee = Responsio ad annotationes Eduardi Lei.

Subjects

Bible., New Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc Early works Erasmus, Desiderius History Lee, Edward Reformation Reformation -- Sources Réforme (Christianisme) -- Sources Sources