{"title":"Desiderius Erasmus","description":"\u003cp\u003eDesiderius Erasmus offers profound reflections on faith, human nature, and morality through works that blend wit with scholarship. His writing challenges conventional thinking, inviting readers to explore spirituality with a critical yet compassionate eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn titles such as \u003cem\u003ePraise of Folly\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDiscourse on Free Will\u003c\/em\u003e, Erasmus engages with themes of free thought and religious reform, making his works essential for those interested in the crossroads of religion, philosophy, and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"praise-of-folly-by-desiderius-erasmus-9780140446081","title":"Praise of Folly","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466–1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePraise of Folly\u003c\/em\u003e, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known work. Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly, dressed as a jester, who celebrates youth, pleasure, drunkenness, and sexual desire, and goes on to lambast human pretensions, foibles, and frailties, to mock theologians and monks, and to praise the folly of simple Christian piety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErasmus's wit, wordplay, and wisdom made the book an instant success, but it also attracted what may have been sales-boosting criticism. The \u003cem\u003eLetter to Maarten van Dorp\u003c\/em\u003e, which is a defence of his ideas and methods, is also included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46502561743084,"sku":"9780140446081","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27348583482237.jpg?v=1748617993"},{"product_id":"discourse-on-free-will-by-martin-luther-9781780938233","title":"Discourse on Free Will","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesiderius Erasmus (1466\/9-1536) was the most renowned scholar of his age, a celebrated humanist and Classicist, and the first teacher of Greek at Cambridge. An influential figure in the Protestant Reformation, though without ever breaking from the Church himself, he satirised both human folly and the corruption of the Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMartin Luther (1483-1546) was the founder of the German Reformation. His 95 Theses became a manifesto for reform of the Catholic Church and led to his being tried for heresy. He remained in Germany, Professor of Biblical Exegesis at the University of Wittenburg, until his death, publishing a large number of works, including three major treatises and a translation of the New Testament into German.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComprising Erasmus's \"The Free Will\" and Luther's \"The Bondage of the Will\", \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on Free Will\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark text in the history of Protestantism. Encapsulating the perspective on free will of two of the most important figures in the history of Christianity, it remains to this day a powerful, thought-provoking and timely work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596256461036,"sku":"9781780938233","price":104.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781780938233-discourse-on-free-will.jpg?v=1777918573"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/desiderius-erasmus.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}