Compare and contrast Erasmus and Savonarola and their approaches to the power structure of the Catholic Church.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Both Savonarola and Erasmus sought a return to a kind of original Christianity. For Savonarola, this was connected to the prestige and wealth of his city of Florence, a position that led to rising political power there. As effective spiritual dictator, Savonarola denounced not only the "vanities" of the Florentines, but also the sexual immorality of the Pope, which he tried to halt through general council of the church. Savonarola's dictatorship, which had widespread popular support, blended Christian reform with patriotism and expressed a desire that Christ's return to earth as judge of the living and the dead was immanent.Erasmus was a humanist, who studied the pagan and Christian literature of antiquity. Like Savonarola, he was fiercely opposed to immorality; however, he expressed his opposition through humor and satire rather than teleological preaching. Also, like Savonarola, he accepted the basic teachings of the Church including the pope's preeminence. Erasmus's version of reformed Christianity centered on what he called the philosophy of Christ, which was found in the ancient sources of Christianity-the scriptures and the commentaries of the early church fathers. Erasmus argued that confession to a priest or clerical celibacy was not original to Christianity and should therefore be stricken from the Church.
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