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This volume provides the first complete English translations of these Paraphrases since 1549, in addition to excellent insight into the fundamentals of Erasmian theology, and includes annotations which highlight the historical and linguistic implications of Erasmus's original texts.

Written more than half a century before Sir Philip Sidney’s well-known Apology for Poetry, Erasmus’ Ratio or ‘System’ is an almost lost masterpiece of Renaissance literary theory and interpretive practice, now available for the first time in English in a convenient student edition.

Through well-chosen excerpts from Erasmus’ writings, this book provides a clear picture of his extensive work on the New Testament.

CWE 41 is intended as an essential companion to the full range of Erasmus scholarship on the New Testament, as it is translated, annotated and presented in Volumes 42-60.

This volume illuminates the early thinking of Erasmus and is a welcome addition to the Collected Works series.

The Paraphrase on Acts commands attention also by its manifest efforts to rationalize biblical history. Erasmus persistently shows that the guidance of the Holy Spirit is nevertheless complemented by very human motivations.

This translation reveals the annotations as a rich storehouse of methodological discussion and semantic analysis, and a fascinating witness to the theological debates of the early sixteenth century.

These Paraphrases address the modern reader with the relevance of the moral issues they define and the perennial importance of the theological questions they raise.

Erasmus yearned to make the Bible an effective instrument in the reform of society, church, and the life of individuals in the turbulent world of the sixteenth century.

Like Augustine in the City of God, Erasmus attempts to define the relationship between the two worlds in which the Christian lives - the heavenly and the spiritual, and the earthly and physical.

Erasmus composed paraphrases in order to simplify and explain Scripture.