Erasmus
November 3, 2009
LAST week was Erasmus week. I was asked to speak at the Erasmus Huis in Jakarta about the Indonesian view of humanism, to mark the birthday of this European figure of humanism born on October 27, 1466. I don’t know much about 15th century European humanism, and the first thing I recalled about Erasmus was what Luther said about him. Luther, the founder of Protestantism who ended up taking a strong stand against the Church, thought Erasmus like
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