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Erasmus on Literature - His Ratio or ‘System' of 1518/1519 (Paperback)
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Erasmus on Literature - His Ratio or ‘System' of 1518/1519 (Paperback)
Series: Erasmus Studies
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None of the works included among Erasmus’ ‘Literary and
Educational Writings’ in the Collected Works of Erasmus captures
his most adventurous thinking about how texts signify in – and
thereby make or remake – worlds of thought, feeling, and action.
The one that comes closest to doing so, the Ratio verae theologiae
(‘A System of True Theology’), was first published separately
in 1518 and 1519, then appeared in the preliminaries to the New
Testament in Erasmus’ (revised) 1519 edition. This handy Ratio or
compendious ‘System’ gave advice on how to interpret complex
texts and develop persuasive arguments based upon them. Its lessons
were applied to the canonical Scriptures as source, and to everyday
Christian theology as target discourse. They unfold in response to
the special difficulties and incitements of the biblical text in
Latin and Greek, within a framework provided by classical grammar
and rhetoric, adjusted to the examples of the Church Fathers as
exemplary interpreters of the Bible. At every turn, the Ratio
reveals the instincts and intuitions of an exceptional theorist and
practitioner of the cognitive, social, and political arts of
written language. This student edition, the first of its kind in
any language, is based on the translation and notes by Robert D.
Sider in the Collected Works of Erasmus Volume 41. It is designed
to make it easier to estimate the long-term value of this
particular work and of Erasmus’ works more generally, and to
allow for a multidisciplinary understanding of the lives of human
beings as symbol-using creatures in worlds constructed partly by
texts.
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