Prominent Themes in Western Civilization Since the Renaissance Erasmus of Rotterdam is one of the most prominent Renaissance writers. Although, his Praise to Folly and Two Forewords to the Latin Translation of the New Testament are stylistically and conceptually very different, there are also many similarities. Let us mention the most important of them: 1) Both works are marked with Erasmus anti-clerical approach towards the issue of Christian faith. They both prepared ground for the decline of Christianity, since Erasmus has unintentionally exposed countless contradictions of Christian doctrine in them. 2) Praise to Folly and Two Forewords promote scientific methods when it comes to dealing with complicated psychological and theological issues. Author refers to ancient authors in both works, which was considered as balancing on the edge of heresy, at the time.
3) In both masterpieces author suggests that Christianity needs to be purified and rid of pointless rituals, which prevent people from grasping its essence. 4) There are also elements of satire in Two Forewords, even though there are written in very serious manner. We can also name a few differences between Praise to Folly and Two Forewords: 1) Author used different styles in writing these two works satirical and analytical. The first proved to be the most efficient one, since we primarily associate Erasmus with Praise to Folly. 2) The first work represents the full scale of Erasmus ideas, since he wasnt bound by Christian scholasticism while writing it, unlike the Two Forewords. Therefore, we can consider Praise to Folly as much more valuable, from conceptual point of view. 3) Praise to Folly is very much deprived of judgmentalism of any sort, while Two Forewords are heavily engaged in it, since author suggests that Christian idea of hell needs to taken literally..
The Essay on God Author Evans Christian
A Critical Pr " ec is of "The Mystery of Persons and Belief in God by C. Stephen Evans 1. Name of author, title, appropriate publishing information, followed by a verb such as argues, believes, reports, and finally a "that clause containing the author's thesis or major assertion. In "The Mystery of Persons and Belief in God" from the web site web mystery persons. html, C. Stephen Evans asserts ...
