Collected Works of Erasmus - 9781442648852

Collected Works of ErasmusParaphrase on Luke 1-10, Volume 47\nAuthor(s): Desiderius Erasmus, Jane E. Phillips\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442648852, 978-1442648852\nSynopsis\nErasmus yearned to make the New Testament an effective instrument of reform in society, church, and everyday life, and to this end he composed the Paraphrases, in which the words of Holy Scripture provide the core of a text that was vastly expanded to embrace the reforming \""philosophy of Christ.\"" Paraphrase on Luke 110 contains the first half of Erasmuss Paraphrase on Luke the second half of which appeared in this series in 2003 and completes the set of translations of the Paraphrases into English.\n\n In his Paraphrase on Luke, Erasmus expands on the original Gospel of Luke in the voice of its original author. The narrative is supplemented by Erasmus explications of the texts moral, theological, and allegorical meaning.