Book Summary
The Five Pieces Presented In This Volume Are Among The Twenty That The editors of the CWE have selected for inclusion in the series of Erasmus'spiritual/pastoral works contained in volumes 66-70. As with so many of the other works in this series, they represent 'the Erasmus nobody knows.' Despite the huge surge of interest in Erasmus in the past thirty years, they have been studied by only a few scholars. They deal with pietas as constituted by an intrinsic relationship among three realities that Erasmus believed his contemporaries often insulated from one another -- spirituality, theology, and ministry. Developing the implications of this relationship is characteristic of his pietas and is a prominent aspect of almost everything he wrote, especially by the 1520s. The volume contains a masterly introduction by Professor O'Malley that provides background and context for the five selections that follow. These are: A Short Debate Concerning the Distress, Alarm and Sorrow of Jesus; A Sermon on the Immense Mercy of God; The Nature of Prayer, An Explanation of the Apostles' Creed; and Preparing for Death.
Book Details
| Book Name | Spiritualia And Pastoralia: Disputatiuncula De Taedio, Pavore, Tristicia Iesu / Concio De Immensa Dei Misericordia / Modus Orandi Deum / Explanati |
| Author | Desiderius Erasmus, John W. O'malley, Erasmus |
| Publisher | University Of Toronto Press (Aug 1998) |
| ISBN | 9780802043092 |
| Pages | 584 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 8887 |