Erasmus would have been 560 years old this year, providing an opportunity to revisit the contributions of this extraordinarily prolific humanist who was both a great theologian and one of the fathers of free will, having opposed the predestination advocated by Luther. He was also a tireless critic of fanaticism. In French.
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Erasmus would have been 560 years old this year, providing an opportunity to revisit the contributions of this extraordinarily prolific humanist who was both a great theologian and one of the fathers of free will, having opposed the predestination advocated by Luther. He was also a tireless critic of fanaticism.
This is why, in 1935, at the height of the rise of fanaticism, Stefan Zweig published a biography of the humanist that encouraged a rereading of the author of The Praise of Folly.
A text that has strangely become relevant again. In French