Sunday School – Men of the Reformation – Lesson 3

Various Passages

Listen as Elder Nate Sheaffer continues the series on the men of the Reformation. This week Nate discusses Desiderius Erasmus. Erasmus lived against the backdrop of the growing European religious Reformation, but while he was critical of the abuses within the Catholic Church and called for reform, he kept his distance from Luther and Melanchthon and continued to recognise the authority of the pope, emphasizing a middle way with a deep respect for traditional faith, piety and grace, rejecting Luther's emphasis on faith alone.