1. Mennonites
Erasmus was born at Rotterdam, Holland on July12, 1536. He was the illegitimate son of Gerard and Margaretha Rogers. He went to a strict monastic school. In 1492, he entered priesthood, but found religion distasteful. The chief centers of his activity from then on were Paris, France, Louvain, Belgiu...
His followers were the common people of Europe; they were from Germany, Switzerland, France England, Scotland, and the Netherlands. ... In 1534 he settled in Basel, Switzerland where he published the first edition of the "Institutes of the Christian Religion." ...
His followers were the common people of Europe; they were from Germany, Switzerland, France England, Scotland, and the Netherlands. ... In 1534 he settled in Basel, Switzerland where he published the first edition of the "Institutes of the Christian Religion." ...
Desiderius Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus was born in 1466 in Holland, where attended school at the Brothers of the Common Life. Over the span of 1466-1536 Desiderius Erasmus became the most influential Christian humanists of his time. He had a profound preoccupation with religion. Erasmus was most...
In the fourteenth and fifteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church was all powerful in Western Europe. There was no legal alternative. The Catholic Church guarded its position and anybody who was deemed to have gone against the Catholic Church was labelled a heretic and burnt at the stake in those t...
Throughout the Middle Ages, the lives of many Europeans revolved around religion. The Reformation was clearly to improve the Catholic Church by stopping the corruptions of the church. The Northern Christian Humanists before believed that the Christian faith had once been a simple religion, twisted t...