The Stoic Origins of Erasmus' Philosophy of Christ

Ross Dealy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2017
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0061-0 (ISBN)

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This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus’ work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Ross Dealy offers novel readings of some lesser and well-known Erasmian texts and presents a detailed discussion of the reception of Stoicism in the Renaissance. In a considered interpretation of Erasmus’ De taedio Iesu, Dealy clearly shows the two-dimensional Stoic elements in Erasmus’ thought from an early time onward. Erasmus’ genuinely philosophical disposition is evidenced in an analysis of his edition of Cicero’s De officiis. Building on stoicism Erasmus shows that Christ’s suffering in Gethsemane was not about the triumph of spirit over flesh but about the simultaneous workings of two opposite but equally essential types of value: on the one side spirit and on the other involuntary and intractable natural instincts.

Ross Dealy is a retired associate professor at St. John’s University, NY.

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

A Philosophy Beneath The Rhetoric

Part I
The Fifteenth-Century Background

Part Ii
Erasmus’ Two-Dimensional Stoicism

Part Iii
Stoic Natural Instinct and Christ’s Fear of Death, De Taedio Iesu

Part Iv
Larger Philosophical Issues

Part V
Correcting a Thousand Years of Christology

Part Vi
Beyond Devotionalist Assumptions

Part Vii
Spiritual Warfare

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Erasmus Studies
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	760 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4875-0061-0 / 1487500610
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-0061-0 / 9781487500610
Zustand	Neuware