Showing posts with label Erasmus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Erasmus. Show all posts
Erasmus of Rotterdam
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/131christians/scholarsandscientists/erasmus.html
Erasmus
Pious humanist who
sparked the Reformation
posted 8/08/2008
"Would
that the farmer might sing snatches of Scripture at his plough and that the
weaver might hum phrases of Scripture to the tune of his shuttle, that the
traveler might lighten with stories from Scripture the weariness of his
Shakespeare's "Othello:" Iago...Totally Corrupted, Utterly Depraved, Entirely Enslaved and Remorselessly a Rational Madman
Aside from our Biblical, Confessional, liturgical and historic committments, a study in rendered on
Iago, a keen antagonist in Shakespeare's Othello. Iago appears to be a decretal reprobate from
eternity past. We submit the following review of Iago, the corrupted, depraved, ontologically
enslaved, epistemologically enslaved, volitionally enshackled and thoroughly corrupted Iago.
Luminarium: "Martin Bucer" (1491-1551)
http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/bucer.htm
MARTIN BUCER (or Butzer), German Protestant reformer,
was born in 1491 at Schlettstadt in Alsace. In 1506 he entered the Dominican
order, and was sent to study at Heidelberg. There he became acquainted with the
works of Erasmus and Luther, and was present at a
disputation of the latter with some of the Romanist doctors. He became a
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