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De Villiers se vertaling kommunikeer in eietydse Afrikaans, sonder
om afbreuk te doen aan die hoofse styl waarin Erasmus dit 500 jaar
gelede geskryf het. Dwaasheid se satiriese kommentaar ontsien
niemand nie, ook nie Erasmus self nie. Vir kerklikes, geleerdes,
wyses, vromes, gode, koninklikes, mans en vroue, is die lewe
draaglik slegs omdat Dwaasheid hulle met haar gawes begunstig. ’n
Verfrissende leeservaring, veral in ag genome dat hierdie
kommentaar steeds op sovele aspekte van ons moderne samelewing van
toepassing is ...
Third and expanded edition with a new biography of Erasmus.
Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has
included the political "Complaint of Peace," the brutal antipapal
satire "Julius Excluded from Heaven," two versions of Erasmus’s
important preface to the Latin translation of the New Testament,
and a selection both serious and comic of his Colloquies and his
letters. Adams has made these selections to emphasize the
humane, rather than the doctrinaire, side of the first and arguably
greatest humanist. Critical commentary is provided in essays by H.
R. Trevor-Roper, R. S. Allen, J. Huizinga, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul
Oskar Kristeller, and Robert M. Adams. Also included are a
Chronology of Erasmus’s life and a Selected Bibliography.
Erasmus yearned to make the Bible an effective instrument of reform
in society, church, and everyday life. To this end, he composed the
Paraphrases, in which the words of Holy Scripture provide the core
of a text vastly expanded to embrace the reforming 'philosophy of
Christ.' Matthew was Erasmus's first paraphrased Gospel and was
thus the great theologian's first opportunity to set out a full
portrait of the life of Jesus. In this Paraphrase, the wonderful
complexity of Jesus's life finds coherence in the conception of Him
as a teacher. The baptism, the dove, and the divine voice attesting
sonship are called the 'inaugurating ceremonies' that authenticate
Jesus as the divine teacher of heavenly philosophy. His students
are the disciples, who are to be teachers themselves, initiating an
unending line of Christian teachers. The Jesus of this Paraphrase
understands pedagogy: He adapts His teaching to the developing
abilities of His pupils, quizzes them, and gently rebukes them. His
actions as well as His words have one primary objective: to teach
the disciples. As a Preface to the Paraphrase, Erasmus wrote a
'Letter to the Pious Reader, ' which became one of his most
provocative and important essays. Like the more published
Paraclesis, this 'Letter' vigorously advocates the translation of
scripture into the vernacular languages, and proposes a
'confirmation' ceremony to encourage young people to assume
responsibility for the vows taken for them at baptism by their
sponsors. This volume illuminates the early thinking of Erasmus and
is a welcome addition to the Collected Works series. Volume 45 of
the Collected Works of Erasmus series.
As part of his effort to make the Bible an effective instrument of
reform in society, church, and everyday life, Erasmus composed the
Paraphrases. In these series of texts, the Holy Scripture provides
the core of a work that is vastly expanded to embrace the reforming
"philosophy of Christ" in all of its forms. This volume contains
two sets of Paraphrases, one on the Corinthian letters (circa.
1519), and the other on the group of letters from the Ephesians to
the Thessalonians (circa. 1520). The first set presents an
epistolary narrative which not only enlivens the events described
but revisits them from a sixteenth-century perspective. Together,
they form a sharpened portrait of the primitive Corinthian church
and an intriguing critique of the church as it was in Erasmus's
time. The second set, Ephesians to Thessalonians, offers an
interpretation of Pauline theology with humanistic overtones that
are distinctively Erasmian. In these Paraphrases, we see the craft
of the philologist at work in the articulation of the doctrine of
the Trinity, the humanist depicting Christ with an unmistakably
human sensibility, and the artist discussing familiar theological
virtues of faith and love in a new way. Apart from providing the
first complete English translations of these Paraphrases since
1549, this volume gives excellent insight into the fundamentals of
Erasmian theology and includes annotations which highlight the
historical and linguistic implications of Erasmus's original texts.
Volume 43Â of the Collected Works of Erasmus series.
First published in Paris in 1511, The Praise of Folly hasenjoyed
enormous and highly controversial success from the author’s
lifetime down to our own day.It hasno rival, except perhaps Thomas
More’s Utopia, as the most intense and lively presentation of the
literary, social, and theological aims and methods of Northern
Humanism. Clarence H. Miller’s highly praised translation of The
Praise of Folly, based on the definitive Latin text, echoes
Erasmus’ own lively style while retaining the nuances of the
original text. In his introduction, Miller places the work in the
context of Erasmus as humanist and theologian. In a new afterword,
William H. Gass playfully considers the meaning, or meanings, of
folly and offers fresh insights into one of the great books of
Western literature. Praise for the earlier edition: “An eminently
reliable and fully annotated edition based on the Latin
text.â€â€”Library Journal “Exciting and brilliant, this is
likely to be the definitive translation of The Praise of Folly
intoEnglish.â€â€”Richard J. Schoeck
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of
Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical
understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking.
Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel
Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and
moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade.
The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and
Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a
debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT137872Perthensi: impensis R. Morison et Fil. et
W. Coke, Leith; apud quos veneunt, 1791. 142p.; 12
The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining
how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to
philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers,
theologians, monarchs and the clergy. At the same time, her
discourse provides a satire of Erasmus's world, poking fun at false
pedantry and the aberrations of Christianity. Woven throughout her
monologue, a thread of irony calls into question the goddess's own
words, in which ambiguities, allusions and interpretations collide
in a way that makes Praise of Folly enduringly fascinating.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and
social critic, and one of the most important figures of the
Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work.
Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this
satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication
irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians and the
foibles that make us all human, while ultimately reaffirming the
value of Christian ideals. No other book displays quite so
completely the transition from the medieval to the modern world,
and Erasmus's wit, wisdom, and critical spirit have lost none of
their timeliness today. This Princeton Classics edition of The
Praise of Folly features a new foreword by Anthony Grafton that
provides an essential introduction to this iridescent and enduring
masterpiece.
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Praise of Folly (Paperback, Revised)
Desiderius Erasmus; Introduction by A. Levi; Notes by A. Levi; Translated by Betty Radice
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The best introduction to the work of Erasmus, this is one of the finest masterpieces of the sixteenth century, updated and superbly translated to reflect the latest scholarly research.
This volume comprises Erasmus' correspondence during the final two
years of his life, June 1534-August 1536. In the public sphere it
was a time of dramatic events: the reconquest of the duchy
Wurttemberg from its Austrian occupiers; the siege and destruction
of the Anabaptist "kingdom" at Munster; Charles V's great victory
at Tunis; and the resumption of the Habsburg-Valois wars in Italy.
In the private sphere, these were years of deteriorating health,
thoughts of impending death, and the loss of close friends
(including Thomas Fisher and Thomas More, both executed by Henry
VIII). At the same time, however, Erasmus managed to publish his
longest book, Ecclesiastes, and to make arrangements, in his final
will, for his considerable wealth to be spent for charitable
purposes after his death.
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