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Humanism Of Christian Of Erasmus' And Its Affection

Posted on:2012-05-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T DengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330338471742Subject:World History
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Renaissance was born in Italy of the medium of the14 century and decomposed suddenly in the 16 century. During the 2 centuries, the similar structure of economy in Europe led to the similar culture that was full of humanities was delivered to every corner of the place that including the northern part. It was so splendid that all subjects developed, all kinds of theories, thoughts like individualism,suspicious and worldliest ,at the meantime ,sprouted like a revolution. In Italy, the Renaissance was a grand arts and humanities but in northern, it was a revolution with simplicity in the thoughts area. There was a great person called Erasmus of Rotterdam led a key role in the revolution. He was an elegant leader of the Humanism in Christian ,he devoted all his lifetime there, and be a pioneer of new thoughts during his era, as he mixed the learning method that for humanities up with the learning for Holly Bible, which was a grateful pioneering work .At the time ,The Religion Reformation was developed in the northern and walked together with Renaissance, in such background ,Erasmus got the education from Brethen Brother, which was melted with religion and humanism, and which gave him a practical knowledge for his study in the work he undertook later. During his growing, Christian church was down but the Renaissance developed, the corruption of the church and the new idea of life rushed to the world, both of them stirred the thought of Erasmus to reform. That was a wish from Erasmus, and was a requirement of society. Different from other reformers like Martin .Luther, he'd like to change the church in peace way ,so that ,the church could return back to Christ directly, and all Christian could feel him ,feel their heart warmly ,what's more ,they can possess a harmonious world that full of virtue through creating a sincere world on the basic of studying holy knowledge and rebuilding the morality for society. Recording to his idea, he had enlarged the definition of god, and advocated harmony, peace and tolerance. Therefore, he objected to reform the church in violent way like Luther wanted, meantime, he could not surrender to the Catholic Church. What a pity, his avocation was refused by all denominations of his era and he was excluded by them.His dream of having an ideal humanism religion became a Utopia at last, that's unchangeable trend in the background of his era. That because his idea was in the environment that lack of useful issues, also because his elegant study for the classic just adjust to the top class of his society ,furthermore, he could not see the moral of pope's was in difficulty, but just called for the pure world of peace and harmony.However, Erasmus did a real useful job, his thoughts that returning back to Christ and Bible affected reformers, moreover he enlarged the definition of god with the culture of Christian world, which made him be a pioneer of the Enlightening .We will treasure his idea of tolerance and peace up, which is even useful for our era, and moreover, what he contributed to the history of the thoughts in western, will give us a permanent wealth. Thanks to him, our world becomes more civilized.
Keywords/Search Tags:Erasmus, humanism of Christian, free wills, tolerance
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