The complicated sixteenth century

The sixteenth (16th) century presents a complicated, at times unnerving, and at other times invigorating sense of Church history.

16th century Characters include:

• Ignatius Loyolla
• Charles V
• Erasmus
• St. Thomas More
• Martin Luther

Erasmus

Considered a great figure in the Humanism movement, Erasmus is complicated. Above all else, he opposed "scholisticism," thus St, Thomas Aquinas, although not by name, attacking, instead, Aquinas' heirs, the Scholastics.

Desiderius Erasmus | Catholic Answers Encyclopedia

Erasmus' influence upon Loyolla

see

• ERASMUS, IGNATIUS LOYOLA, AND ORTHODOXY on JSTOR
• Handbook of a Christian Knight | work by Erasmus | Britannica