In the footsteps of Erasmus - Oxford

With a ‘light but daily recurring fever’, Erasmus was not in the best of shapes in spring 1498. He decided, he simply wanted to live ‘for God only’
and wanted to dedicate his life to the Holy Scripture.

Nothing indicates that he managed to do so in Paris, but once in Oxford, all the right things got together for Erasmus. With John Colet as example, Erasmus realized that the humanistic energy he had put in literature could also be used in the field of religion: the Bible was evenly focused on educating and developing people and the doctrine of Christ could be analyzed, imitated and propagated in the same way as the art of poets and the lessons of philosophers. In Oxford Erasmus became a theologian on a humanistic basis.