Dutch Christian humanist and priest whose Greek New Testament (1516), patristic editions, satires and pleas for peace and reform made him the most famous scholar of his age; he remained in the Catholic Church while debating Luther on free will.
Erasmus's oration in which Peace herself complains that she is driven out by Christian princes, bishops and peoples alike, and pleads that war between Christians contradicts the gospel of Christ.
Erasmus's satirical declamation in which Folly praises herself, mocking the vanities of every estate, especially scholastic theologians, monks, popes and princes, before turning at the end to the holy 'folly' of the cross; with the dedicatory letter to Thomas More.
