Yielding to the Prejudices of His Times
In 1516, Desiderius Erasmus published the first Greek New Testament. Almost immediately, it became embroiled in controversy and Erasmus was accused of heresy because of critical decisions he made about the text. The most controversial was his decision to not include 1John 5,7, the so-called Comma Jo...
| Published in: | Church history and religious culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Church history and religious culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Erasmus, Desiderius 1466-1536, Bible. Neues Testament (Novum instrumentum)
/ Criticism
/ John
/ Arianism
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| RelBib Classification: | HC New Testament KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDH Christian sects |
| Further subjects: | B
Desiderius Erasmus
heresy
John
Johannine Comma
Luther
Novum Instrumentum
Novum Testamentum
biblical criticism
Jacobus Hoogstraaten
text criticism
Edward Lee
Pope Leo X
Diet of Worms
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | In 1516, Desiderius Erasmus published the first Greek New Testament. Almost immediately, it became embroiled in controversy and Erasmus was accused of heresy because of critical decisions he made about the text. The most controversial was his decision to not include 1John 5,7, the so-called Comma Johanneum, which was used as a defense of the Trinity. This essay examines the ways in which Erasmus attempted to protect himself and his New Testament from heresy charges as he revised it for its second edition. Then, it offers a further contextualization for why those attempts failed. Erasmus reinserted 1John 5,7 in his third edition. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
| Contains: | In: Church history and religious culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09501001 |