solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. any book, especially those books that have languished on the bookshelf you have been "intending" to read.
my journey through thomas cahill's hinges of history series, volume six, heretics and heores continues. this volume explores how renaissance artists and reformation priests created our world. having completed the renaissance artists section i have been reading about the reformation priests. the two figures that stand out are erasmus and luther; making an impact in the very early 1500s. there is quite a contrast between the two! as is the way they poked at establishment. where erasmus used humor, luther used reasoned theory and logic. one was ignored by authority, most notably the church, and one created the schism that split the church into catholicism and protestantism. a major hinge in history.
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