The Christian Peace of Erasmus
@article{Ron2014TheCP,
title={The Christian Peace of Erasmus},
author={Nathan Ron},
journal={The European Legacy},
year={2014},
volume={19},
pages={27 - 42},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143485311}
}Abstract The aim of this essay is to show that Erasmus’s concept of peace should be understood as a form of irenicism rather than pacifism. I argue that Erasmus’s basic claims on war and peace do not qualify him as a pacifist, first of all because his concept of peace is non-universal: it is exclusively Christian since it does not include Muslims and Jews unless they have converted to Christianity. Secondly, Erasmus’s willingness to fight the Turks and his call for a Christian war against them…
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