Erasmus: A Light of the Renaissance

Erasmus would have been 560 years old this year, providing an opportunity to revisit the contributions of this extraordinarily prolific humanist who was both a great theologian and one of the fathers of free will, having opposed the predestination advocated by Luther. He was also a tireless critic of fanaticism. This is why, in 1935, at the height of the rise of fanaticism, Stefan Zweig published a biography of the humanist that encouraged a rereading of the author of The Praise of Folly. A text that has strangely become relevant again. In French