Where Christian Humanism Begins
An an exposition of Paul’s letter to the Church at Rome
The “prince of humanists,” Desiderius Erasmus, penned the following insight in his seminal work, The Antibarbarians: “Everything in the Pagan world that was valiantly done, brilliantly said, ingeniously thought, diligently transmitted, had been prepared by Christ for his society.”1
Erasmus’s mantra represents a significant aspect of what scholars call Chr…
