Title: Luther, Erasmus, and the Reformation
Description: This delightful little book should be in undergraduate libraries.... It is a monument to the new spirit of Reformation scholarship. Here are Roman Catholic historians presenting not only very learned but appreciative analyses of aspects of Luther and a Lutheran writing on the `Catholic Luther.' Erasmus in all his complexity is shown to be a principled, though somewhat liberal, Catholic. Moreover, there is an intriguing comparison of Erasmus and Loyola which shows clearly that Loyola's reform program was by no mean essentially `counter' reform. There is not a great deal which is essentially new, but probably no other single volume better pictures the shape of current Reformation studies. At long last, nonsectarian history is stepping to the fore
Subjects: Reformation, Congresses, Luther, martin, 1483-1546
People: Martin Luther (1483-1546), Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536)