Scholarly Resources from Concordia Seminary

Article Title

Erasmus's Pictures of Church Conditions

Authors

W. Dallmann, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Publication Date

3-1-1940

Document Type

Article

Keywords

erasmus, colloquies, monks, creed, eubuius, excommunicated

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

The Familiar Colloquies came out on January 1, 1519, and on the title-page state they are "useful not only for polishing a boy's speech but for building his character." E. F. H. Capey says: ''Erasmus occasionally lapses into coarseness, but the Colloquies were written for men of nerve, not for children." What can you do with such biographers?

In this work Erasmus is proved a most peculiar priestly pedagog. Froude calls Erasmus ''the most gifted man Europe has ever seen," and this is his best-loved and most widely read work. It gives us a better picture of Catholicism than many volumes of general histories of the time; the Colloquies are ''the very image and mirror of the time."

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

Recommended Citation

Dallmann, W. (1940) "Erasmus's Pictures of Church Conditions," Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 11, Article 19.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol11/iss1/19