Word: erasmus
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...includes a goodly share of the honors the world pays to a man who has thought deeply and originally. Last week, at the age of 85, frail, white-bearded Philosopher Buber flew from Israel to Amsterdam to accept one of Europe's highest intellectual prizes: the $28,000 Erasmus Award, presented to one or more persons who have contributed to the spiritual unity of Europe.* The award cited Buber for "enriching the spiritual life of Europe with his versatile gifts for more than half a century." Buber is one of the master stylists of modern German prose...
Kaiser received the prize for his forthcoming book, Praisers of Folly: Erasmus. Rabelais, Shakespeare, while Karl, who is now an assistant professor of History at Washington University, St. Louis, for Executive Reorganization and Reform in the New Deal...
...have never had an easy time of it. In A.D. 403, St. Jerome was sharply criticized by St. Augustine of Hippo for introducing new phrasings into his Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate. A critical edition of the New Testament's Greek text by the Renaissance Humanist Erasmus was put on Rome's Index of Forbidden Books. With ecclesiastical approval, French police destroyed the scholarly writings of Father Richard Simon, the 17th century's best Biblical critic...
...reader's privileges in the coming term." For the second time that day Gridley smiled sardonically. He was thinking about the new tunnel he had found, the one that led to squash court 9 in Lowell House. He was still smiling when he loaded the 1516 New Testament of Erasmus with Holbein capitals into a Coop laundry bag and trudged back to his room...
Yale's English-born Roland H. Bainton, 68, a Congregationalist minister and professor of church history, was once described as "part Puck, part St. Francis, with a mixture of Erasmus." A caricaturist who likes to whip off sketches of Reinhold Niebuhr or Paul Tillich, he is also an indefatigable bicyclist whose latest two-wheeler boasts 18 gears. Few other Yale divines have done so much to spread the word in human tones. In 42 years at Yale, Bainton published 19 books (total sales: 1,500,000), notably Church of Our Fathers and Here I Stand, probably the most readable...