HIST 1003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Johann Eck, Religious Ecstasy, Infant Baptism
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Erasmus and katharina von bora leave monastacism behind: erasmus, prince of humanists, was a self-made man. Born herasmus gerritszoon, he later took the first name of desiderius and dropped the last name, which identified him as. As the illegiti(cid:373)ate so(cid:374) of a (cid:455)ou(cid:374)g (cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:449)ho had a(cid:271)a(cid:374)do(cid:374)ed hi(cid:373) a(cid:374)d his mother, erasmus had little social standing and few worldly prospects, and so his family pushed him toward a religious life. After some training in the new devotion promoted by the. Brothers of the common life, which was the rage in the netherlands at the time, erasmus was compelled to enter the monastic life. Catholic faithful met in the physical and spiritual church under the supervision of a priest who acted as an essential intermediary between humans and god. The priest administered the granting of the sacraments to the faithful, for humans were regarded as deformed and sinful as a result of the fall and so in need of sacramental remedies.
