Volume 73 of the Collected Works invites the reader to examine Erasmus’ own explanations of his philological method and its theological significance.

Introduction

Translator’s Note

A Defence by Erasmus of Rotterdam Publicly Refuting the Mischievous Clamour of Certain Men among People both Influential and Humble to Whom They Declare that it was an Impiety on his Part to Translate in the Gospel of John: In principio erat sermo (1520a)
Apologia Erasmi Roterodami palam refellens quorundam seditiosos clamores apud populum ac magnates, quibus ut impie factum iactitant, quod in evangelio Ioannis verterit, ‘In principio erat sermo’

A Defence by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam of In principio erat sermo (1520b)
Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami Apologia de ‘In principio erat sermo’

A Defence by Erasmus of Rotterdam against Criticism Made in Public Teaching by Nicolaas of Egmond of the Passage in Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 15 ‘We shall indeed all rise again, but we shall not all be changed’
Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami Apologia de loco taxato in publica professione per Nicolaum Ecmondanum Theologum et Carmelitanum Lovanii. Locus est in epistola Pauli ad Corinthios priore, cap XV: ‘Omnes quidem resurgemus, sed non omnes immutabimur

A Letter by Desiderius Erasmus Defending his Views Concerning the Prohibition on Eating Meat and Similar Human Regulations, to the Reverend Father in Christ and Honourable Prince Christopher, Bishop of Basel
Ad reverendum in Christo patrem et illustrem principem Christophorum episcopum Basiliensem, epistola apologetica Erasmi Roterodami, de interdicto esu carnium, deque similibus hominum constitutionibus

Notes on the Letter about Abstinence
In epistolam de delectu ciborum scholia

A Response by Desiderius Erasmus to the Discussions of a Certain ‘Youth Who Would Teach his Elders’
Desiderii Erasmi responsio ad Collationes cuiusdam iuvenis gerontodidasca

Works Frequently Cited

Short-Title Forms Erasmus’ Works

Index of Scriptural References

Index of Green and Latin Works Cited

General Index

By Desiderius Erasmus, Edited and Translated by Denis L. Drysdall