... create an audience for their respective works, More used Hythloday's voice to take a conservative approach by praising Christianity while Erasmus" uses Folly to voice his radical criticisms for the baseless traditions held dear by church leaders. Thomas More's praise of Christianity helped to create a wide audience for his work Utopia. The mysterious mariner Raphael Hythloday describes how he traveled to the land ... foolish practices" which were central to the church at that time. Erasmus was not alone in his dissatisfaction as The Praise of Folly was received well by a large group of Ch...

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... common people's overwhelming superstitions. "Erasmus" concept was that Christianity should be a guiding philosophy for the direction of daily life, rather than the system of dogmatic beliefs and practices that medieval church stressed, which he called "the philosophy of Christ". (Pg 362 WH) Erasmus published a pamphlet called "Praise of Folly", where he questioned the shrines and miracles along with the superstition. In addition, he found only one ... explanation for the success of the priests: the stupidity, ignorance, and gullibility of the believers. Erasmus wrote the scriptures in l...

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... 15th and 16th centuries. People believed that it was the only way to God. Unfortunatley the church was not exactly a shining example of all that was good and right. There were many things that were wrong with the Catholic Church. Clerical immorality, simony, pluralism, absenteeism ... corrupt monasteries, were just a few things that corrupted the church. This caused an cry of outrage in the population. People started to doubt the morality and beliefs of the church. By the 16th century the idea of humanism (the literary culture one needed to be civilized and educated) was being applied mo...

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