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- Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536)
How To Use Erasmus In A Sentence
- Despite the rigorous opposition of William of Honstein and Erasmus of Limburg (1541-68), all the secular lordships of the diocese in Lower Alsace adopted the new doctrine, except the landgraviate; even part of the cathedral chapter became Protestant. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- Darwin's grandfather Erasmus believed life evolved from a single ancestor.
- As philologists at least as early as Erasmus observed (and as information theory's version of the second law of thermodynamics would predict), scribal errors tend to replace less frequent and hence entropically more information-rich wordings with more frequent ones. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Barbara had not only received this guest alone, but she had kept him more than an hour, and the servant could swear that the young man to whom she sang long songs -- which, it is true, sounded like church music -- to the lute and also to the harp, was Erasmus Eckhart, the adopted son of the archtraitor, Dr. Hiltner, who had just obtained the degree of Master of Arts in Wittenberg. Barbara Blomberg — Complete
- His sympathy for Reuchlin irritated many of his new colleagues, and enthusiastic young German humanists who supported Reuchlin associated his cause with Erasmus, mentioned Erasmus as a foe of the Cologne Dominicans, and even published some friendly private letters that he had written to Reuchlin, commiserating (very cautiously) with his troubles. Desiderius Erasmus
- Erasmus searched for reconciliation between Faith and Reason, refusing not only the dogmas of Faith, but the dogmas of Reason as well.
- When Tyndale went to Cambridge in 1517, the university was already bubbling with the new learning which had recently been introduced by the Dutch scholar Erasmus.
- He could remember buying charlottes russe (ladyfingers and Bavarian cream) -- which, decades later out of nostalgia, he would pick up for me from a local bakery -- off the back of a wagon on a street near Erasmus High in Brooklyn where he went to school and played lacrosse. Tom Engelhardt: Borrowed Time: The World at 65
- She said she was now relieved the truth about what had been happening to her - through what she termed mudslinging, propaganda and disinformation - had come out through former security policeman Paul Erasmus. ANC Daily News Briefing
- When Tyndale went to Cambridge in 1517, the university was already bubbling with the new learning which had recently been introduced by the Dutch scholar Erasmus.