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Erasmus and More: Some Contrasting Theological Opinions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Rainer Pineas
Rainer Pineas*
Affiliation:
Pace College, New York
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When, during their controversy, Tyndale asks More why he has criticized the Tyndale translation of the New Testament but has said nothing against the translation of his ‘derelyng’ Erasmus, More answers:

I have not contended with Erasmus my derling, because I found no suche malicious entente with Erasmus my derlyng, as I fynde with Tyndall. For hadde I founde with Erasmus my derling the shrewde entente and purpose that I fynde in Tyndall: Erasmus my derlyng should be no more my derlyng….

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Research Article
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Renaissance News , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , Winter 1960 , pp. 298 - 300
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1960

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References

1 The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, ed. W. Rastell (London, 1557), p. 422. Hereafter cited as Workes.

2 See Opus Epistolarum, ed P. S. Allen (Oxford, 1906-47), VIII, 272; x, 33.

3 Workes, p. 190 ff.

4 See Erasmus’ ridicule of relics in Familiar Colloquies, trans. N. Bailey (London, 1877), Pp. 243-251.

5 Workes, p. 119 ff.

6 Colloquies, p. 257.

7 Workes, p. 189.

8 Colloquies, p . 257. See also pp. 145-146.

9 Opus Epistolarum, VII, 467.

10 Workes, pp. 201-202.

11 Opus Epistolarum, VII, 462.

12 Ibid., II, 306.

13 Annotations to the 1535 edition of the New Testament, p. 670.

14 Workes, pp. 246-247.

15 From the preface to the 1516 edition of the New Testament, sig. aaa4V.

16 See Workes, pp. 477-478.

17 Preface to the New Testament (1516), sig. aaa4v.

18 Workes, p. 961.