TY  - GEN
T1  - Paraphrase on John
T2  - Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. Works. 1984.
T2  - Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. Works. 1974 ;
A1  - Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
A2  - Phillips, Jane E. (Jane Ellen), 1943-
LA  - English
LA  - Latin
PP  - Toronto, Ont. ; Buffalo, N.Y.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 1991
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn244766400
AB  - Erasmus yearned to make the Bible an effective instrument in the reform of society, church, and the life of individuals in the turbulent world the sixteenth century. He theerfore composed paraphrases in which the words of Holy Scripture provided the core of a text vastly expanded to embrace the reforming 'philosophy of Christ.' The Paraphrases were successful beyond expectation and were quickly translated from Latin into French, German, English, and other languages. This volume is the third Paraphrase to be published in the New Testament Scholarship series in the CWE. In it Erasmus explores questions that have always been central to Christian self-understanding. Why is the cross folly to the wise of this world? In the Paraphrase on John Erasmus hints broadly that the cause of human blindness lies in the arrogance of intellectual pretensions, the love of vain-glory, the lust for possessions, the fear of losing the supports that secure a comfortable way of life. Perhaps nothing will please the reader more the portraits of the chief characters in John's Gospels. We enjoy the simplicity of the lowly woman at the well, we understand the complexity of the distinguished Nicodemus. Above all, we are captured by the portrait of Christ himself. Upon the stage Erasmus has here designed, Christ appears first in the humility of a lowly artisan from a despised country; only to the discerning does his glory flash forth from his mortality, a mortalitiy vividly etched in the scene on the cross. But in the last pages of the Paraphrase on John, Erasmus sets before us in sharp dramatic contrast the resurrected Christ glorious with a radiant holiness. Like Augustine in the City of God, Erasmus attempts to define the relationship between the two worlds in which the Christian lives - the heavenly and the spiritual, and the earthly and physical.
OP  - 371
CN  - BS2617 .E713 1991eb
SN  - 9781442677678
SN  - 1442677678
SN  - 0802058590
SN  - 9780802058591
KW  - Bible. : John : Paraphrases, English.
KW  - Bible. : New Testament. : Jean : Paraphrases anglaises : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Bible. : New Testament. : Jean : Paraphrases latines : Traductions anglaises.
KW  - Bible. : John
KW  - HISTORY : Renaissance.
KW  - RELIGION : Biblical Studies : Jesus, the Gospels & Acts.
KW  - RELIGION : Biblical Studies : New Testament.
KW  - Paraphrases
ER  -