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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (973)	9/20/2000 9:57:30 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Hi X Actually Erasmus was in agreement with much that Luther stood for but thought it would be better to try and reform the church from the inside. In fact Erasmus set the stage for much of the criticism leveled by the reformers. utm.edu "When Erasmus was charged-and very justly-with having " laid the egg that Luther hatched " he half admitted the truth of the charge, but said he had expected quite another kind of a bird. In their early correspondence Luther expressed in unmeasured terms his admiration for all Erasmus had done in the cause of a sound and reasonable Christianity, and exhorted him now to put the seal upon his work by definitely casting in his lot with the Lutheran party. Erasmus replied with many expressions of regard, but declined to commit himself to any party attitude. His argument was that to do so would endanger his position as a leader in the movement for pure scholarship which he regarded as his real work in life. Only through that position as an independent scholar could he hope to influence the reform of religion. The constructive value of Luther's work was mainly in furnishing a new doctrinal basis for the hitherto scattered attempts at reform. In reviving the half forgotten principle of the Augustinian theology Luther had furnished the needed impulse to that personal interest in religion which is the essence of Protestantism. This was precisely what Erasmus could not approve. He dreaded any change in the doctrine of the Church and believed that there was room enough within existing formulas for the kind of reform he valued most."