Erasmus and Luther – The Bible as medium of change?

CCLR-seminar with Professor Marius Mjaaland, University of Oslo, and Professor Brian Cummings, University of York.

More info will follow.

Marius Mjaaland’s short paragraph

If the Bible has any impact at all, it must be due to the clarity of the Holy Scripture, Luther argues against Erasmus. How can he make such a claim? Or argue that Scripture is “its own interpreter”? Luther’s arguments often seem questionable and exaggerated to a modern reader. But what happens when the questions return to the reader, affects her being in some profound sense? What happens when a movement takes place, within the very act of interpretation?

The programme is sent out via email and posted at this site, please sign up to receive it: av@teol.ku.dk.

We speak English, when the title is in English, if it is in Danish, the paper is in Danish and the language of the seminar is mixed.