1geoffreymeadows
Finished the Norton Critical Edition of The Praise of Folly and Other Writings, by Erasmus, today, though it’s obvious more re-readings of The Praise of Folly and The Complaint of Peace are in order. I’ve only read The Praise of Folly twice now.
Next is to read “The Enchiridion” in The Library of Christian Classics series, Advocates of Reform: From Wyclif to Erasmus. I’m thinking of reading also the debate between Erasmus and Luther on the freedom of the will. It’s in another Library of Christian Classics volume on Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation.
When I first conceived of this study, I did not anticipate getting so deeply into the theological writings of the time. But the Reformation is all about the theology. It’s what people ended up fighting and dying for. Diarmaid MacCulloch says somewhere in his survey of the Reformation Era something similar, you can’t write about the history of the Reformation without taking care to understand the theology.
Next is to read “The Enchiridion” in The Library of Christian Classics series, Advocates of Reform: From Wyclif to Erasmus. I’m thinking of reading also the debate between Erasmus and Luther on the freedom of the will. It’s in another Library of Christian Classics volume on Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation.
When I first conceived of this study, I did not anticipate getting so deeply into the theological writings of the time. But the Reformation is all about the theology. It’s what people ended up fighting and dying for. Diarmaid MacCulloch says somewhere in his survey of the Reformation Era something similar, you can’t write about the history of the Reformation without taking care to understand the theology.
2AnnieMod
Once you start on a topic, you end up digging into all kinds of weird directions - usually much much deeper than you expected. Despite it being a political act in England (for some value of political - I’d argue that England would have broken with Rome even if Henry did not want a new wife - maybe a tad later), the Reformation and the contemporaries’ explanations and excuses of it were deeply theological, especially on the continent. Not that there wasn’t enough politics involved of course. :)
