Erasmus Rotterdamist
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taunis usulist silmakirjalikkust, indulgentsidega kaubitsemist, usufanatismi, vaimulike
harimatust ja kombelõtvust, "pildikummardamist". Ersamus pani aluse piiblikriitikale.
Kunstnik suri Londonis 1543. aastal katku.
Humanism - isiksuse vabadust taotlenud liikumine renessansiajastul
Fanatism - fanaatikule omane kirglik andumus, pühendumus
Fanaatik - millegi kirglik kaitsja v harrastaja
Teoloogia usuteadus
His scholarly name Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus comprises the following three elements:
the Latin noun desiderium ("longing" or "desire"; the name being a genuine Late Latin name);
the Greek adjective (erásmios) meaning "desired", and, in the form Erasmus, also
the name of a saint; and the Latinized adjectival form for the city of Rotterdam (Roterodamus
= "of Rotterdam").
Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a "pure" Latin style and enjoyed the sobriquet
"Prince of the Humanists