Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses - Perspectives from Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Era - Ludovico Battista

Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses - Perspectives from Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Era - Ludovico Battista

The Ambiguities of Erasmus’ Religious Peace: A Reading of De amabili ecclesiae concordia (1533)

Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses - Perspectives from Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Era - Ludovico Battista

Ludovico Battista [+-]
Sapienza University of Rome
Ludovico Battista (PhD, Sapienza University of Rome) is a researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. He deals with the history of Christianity and the critical relationship between theology and philosophy. His interests focus on the problem of secularization and the genesis of modernity, on the Renaissance and the period of the Reformation (with specific attention to Erasmus and his reception in Italy), on the question of political theology since the early Christianity and the patristic reflection. Among his publications: Hans Blumenberg e l’autodistruzione del cristianesimo, Viella, Roma, 2021; and Le ragioni della religione. Mito, modernità e secolarizzazione in H. Blumenberg and J. Habermas, Lithos, Roma, 2021.

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The article offers an analysis of Erasmus’s De sarcienda Ecclesiae concordia and aims to show how the theme of religious concord is not simply an expression of a neutral and conciliatory position, but—particularly in reference to the biblical episode of Moses and the punishment of Korah—hides an anti-Lutheran key. The ideological exaltation of the “concordia” is a way of neutralizing the effects of the Reformation, that is, of reintegrating them into the Catholic context and thus challenging Luther for the leadership of a process of Church reform. This interpretation would later be verified following the reception that Erasmus’s text would have among some Catholic controversialists, such as Cochlaeus and Nausea.

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Battista, Ludovico . The Ambiguities of Erasmus’ Religious Peace: A Reading of De amabili ecclesiae concordia (1533). Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses - Perspectives from Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Era. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 134-166 Mar 2024. ISBN 9781800503885. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=44439. Date accessed: 26 Apr 2025 doi: 10.1558/equinox.44439. Mar 2024

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