Swiss Calvinist theologian and physician (1524–1583)
Thomas Erastus
by Tobias Stimmer, 1582
Born
7 September 1524
Baden (in present-day Aargau)
Died
31 December 1583(1583-12-31) (aged 59)
Basel
Nationality
Swiss
Alma mater
University of Basel University of Bologna University of Padua
Known for
Opposition to Paracelsus Erastianism (unity between the church and state)
Scientific career
Fields
Medicine, theology
Institutions
University of Heidelberg
Academic advisors
Luca Ghini[1]
Notable students
Petrus Ryff
Thomas Erastus (original surname Lüber, Lieber, or Liebler;[2] 7 September 1524 – 31 December 1583) was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian. He wrote 100 theses (later reduced to 75) in which he argued that the sins committed by Christians should be punished by the State, and that the Church should not withhold sacraments as a form of punishment. They were published in 1589, after his death, with the title Explicatio gravissimae quaestionis. His name was later applied to Erastianism.[2]
^Charles Gunnoe, Thomas Erastus and the Palatinate: A Renaissance Physician in the Second Reformation, Brill, 2010 p. 41.
^ ab"Thomas Erastus | Swiss physician and theologian". Retrieved 2016-07-18.
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Erastus of Corinth (Greek: Ἔραστος, Erastos), also known as Erastus of Paneas, held the political office of steward (Greek: οἰκονόμος, oikonomos), in...
Erastian party, alongside the lawyer John Selden. Selden praised him, with ThomasErastus, in his De Synedriis. He was a native of Oxford, and entered Magdalen...
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died. In 1587 in Basel he married Isotta de Canonici, the widow of ThomasErastus. In 1613 he was living at Charlton House the home of Adam Newton, tutor...
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