Liber de sarcienda ecclesiae concordia

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With the Liber de sarcienda ecclesiae concordia , printed in 1533 by Froben in Basel (probably not published until 1534, 144 pages), Erasmus of Rotterdam attempted to reunite the Catholic Church with the Reformation faith . Among the so-called “ mediation theologians ” of the 1540s and 1550s in the German Empire , this work by the most important Northern European humanist of his time assumed a “leading role”. The ULB Saxony-Anhalt has made a very careful online edition of a print from 1537 available.

In the same year (1533) a German edition also appeared under the title Von der kirchen lieblichen Vereinigung, vnd empty of the laying down of this time-keeping division in the belief: In which booklin would vff consign the one Savior to our Lord Jesus Christ . In 1971 Raymond Himelick brought out an English edition under the title The seamless Coat of Jesus .

Secondary literature on the endeavors of Erasmus von Rotterdam (and others) to reunite the faiths at the time of the Reformation, recently a work by Friedrich Wilhelm Kantzenbach and one by Willi Hentze have appeared.

Individual evidence

  1. Heribert Smolinsky, Bernd Walter (ed.): Catholic life and church reform in the age of religious schism. (= Catholic theologians of the Reformation period 6. ) Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-402-02985-5 .
  2. Online edition Liber de sarcienda ecclesiae of the ULB Saxony-Anhalt
  3. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Kantzenbach: The struggle for the unity of the church in the century of the Reformation. Representatives, sources and motifs of the “ecumenical” idea from Erasmus von Rotterdam to Georg Calixt. Evangelisches Verlagswerk, Stuttgart 1957.
  4. ^ Willi Hentze: Church and ecclesiastical unity with Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. (= Denominational and controversial theological studies. Vol. 34) Verlag Bonifacius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1973.