Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, And The Fight For The Western Mind

  • Autor: Michael Massing
  • Narrador: Tom Parks
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 34:51:46
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Sinopse

A New York Times Notable Book

A deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest minds of European history—Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther—whose heated rivalry gave rise to two enduring, fundamental, and often colliding traditions of philosophical and religious thought.

“A masterly work. Massing manages to juggle the complicated biographies and life work of both Erasmus and Luther while giving the reader a well-written, comprehensive background of pre-Reformation theology.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Erasmus of Rotterdam was the leading figure of the Northern Renaissance. At a time when Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael were revolutionizing Western art and culture, Erasmus was helping to transform Europe’s intellectual and religious life, developing a new design for living for a continent rebelling against the hierarchical constraints of the Roman Church. When in 1516 he came out with a revised edition of the New Testament based on the original Greek, he was hailed as the prophet of a new enlightened age. Today, however, Erasmus is largely forgotten, and the reason can be summed up in two words: Martin Luther. As a young friar in remote Wittenberg, Luther was initially a great admirer of Erasmus and his critique of the Catholic Church, but while Erasmus sought to reform that institution from within, Luther wanted a more radical transformation. Eventually, the differences between them flared into a bitter rivalry, with each trying to win over Europe to his vision.

In Fatal Discord, Michael Massing seeks to restore Erasmus to his proper place in the Western tradition. The conflict between him and Luther, he argues, forms a fault line in Western thinking—the moment when two enduring schools of thought, Christian humanism and evangelical Christianity, took shape. A seasoned journalist who has reported from many countries, Massing here travels back to the early sixteenth century to recover a long-neglected chapter of Western intellectual life, in which the introduction of new ways of reading the Bible set loose social and cultural forces that helped shatter the millennial unity of Christendom and whose echoes can still be heard today. Massing concludes that Europe has adopted a form of Erasmian humanism while America has been shaped by Luther-inspired individualism.

Capítulos

  • 001 Fatal Discord

    Duração: 13s
  • 002 Introduction

    Duração: 20min
  • 003 Chapter 01

    Duração: 46min
  • 004 Chapter 02

    Duração: 19min
  • 005 Chapter 03

    Duração: 52min
  • 006 Chapter 04

    Duração: 20min
  • 007 Chapter 05

    Duração: 50min
  • 008 Chapter 06

    Duração: 23min
  • 009 Chapter 07

    Duração: 01h18min
  • 010 Chapter 08

    Duração: 59min
  • 011 Chapter 09

    Duração: 55min
  • 012 Chapter 10

    Duração: 01h16min
  • 013 Chapter 11

    Duração: 01h06min
  • 014 Chapter 12

    Duração: 01h01min
  • 015 Chapter 13

    Duração: 59min
  • 016 Chapter 14

    Duração: 54min
  • 017 Chapter 15

    Duração: 28min
  • 018 Chapter 16

    Duração: 45min
  • 019 Chapter 17

    Duração: 25min
  • 020 Chapter 18

    Duração: 35min
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