Abstract

The article is devoted to the Erasmus’ Christology, depicted in two of his works: Disputatiuncula de taedio, pavore, tristicia Iesu (1499) and Apologia ad Iacobum Fabrum Stapulensem (1517). Erasmus in his vision of Christ as an incarnated God, puts special emphasis on his humanity that made him an adequate exemplar for man to imitation. John Colet and Lefèvre d’Étaples, with whom Erasmus quarreled and insisted on his divinity. Erasmus argued that his interpretation accords not only with the practices of the Christian piety, but also with the interpretation of Church Fathers; the opposite is exposed to the risk of falling into the docetic heresy.

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