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COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS VOLUME 70 Albrecht Diirer (1471-1528) Christ on the Mount of Olives. Etching. By permission of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Mrs George Khuner, 1968 (68.793.1) COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS SPIRITUALIA and PASTORALIA DISPUTATIUNCULA DE TAEDIO, PAVORE, TRISTICIA IESU CONCIO DE IMMENSA DEI MISERICORDIA MODUS ORANDI DEUM EXPLANATIO SYMBOLI APOSTOLORUM DE PRAEPARATIONE AD MORTEM edited by John W. O'Malley University of Toronto Press Toronto / Buffalo / London The research and publication costs of the Collected Works of Erasmus are supported by University of Toronto Press. © University of Toronto Press 1998 Toronto / Buffalo / London Printed in Canada ISBN 0-8020-4309-7 Printed on acid-free paper Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536 [Works] Collected works of Erasmus Partial contents: v. 70. Spiritualia and Pastoralia. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8020-4309-7 (v. 70) i. Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. i. Title. PA85OO1974 876'.O4 C74-oo6326-x rev University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing programme of the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. Collected Works of Erasmus The aim of the Collected Works of Erasmus is to make available an accurate, readable English text of Erasmus' correspondence and his other principal writings. The edition is planned and directed by an Editorial Board, an Executive Committee, and an Advisory Committee. EDITORIAL BOARD Alexander Dalzell, University of Toronto James M. Estes, University of Toronto Charles Fantazzi, University of Windsor James K. Farge, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies John N. Grant, University of Toronto Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto James K. McConica, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Chairman John O'Malley, Weston Jesuit School of Theology Mechtilde O'Mara, University of Toronto Jane E. Phillips, University of Kentucky Erika Rummel, Wilfrid Laurier University R.J. Schoeck, Lawrence, Kansas Robert D. Sider, Dickinson College James D. Tracy, University of Minnesota EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Alexander Dalzell, University of Toronto James M. Estes, University of Toronto Charles Fantazzi, University of Windsor Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto Bill Harnum, University of Toronto Press James K. McConica, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies George Meadows, University of Toronto Press Mechtilde O'Mara, University of Toronto Jane E. Phillips, University of Kentucky Erika Rummel, Wilfrid Laurier University R.J. Schoeck, Lawrence, Kansas R.M. Schoeffel, University of Toronto Press, Chairman Robert D. Sider, Dickinson College James D. Tracy, University of Minnesota ADVISORY COMMITTEE Maria Cytowska, University of Warsaw Anthony Graf ton, Princeton University Otto Herding, Universitat Freiburg Jozef IJsewijn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Robert M. Kingdon, University of Wisconsin Paul Oskar Kristeller, Columbia University Maurice Lebel, Universite Laval Jean-Claude Margolin, Centre d'etudes superieures de la Renaissance de Tours Bruce M. Metzger, Princeton Theological Seminary Clarence H. Miller, Saint Louis University Heiko A. Oberman, University of Arizona John Rowlands, The British Museum J.S.G. Simmons, Oxford University John Tedeschi, University of Wisconsin J. Trapman, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen J.B. Trapp, Warburg Institute Contents Introduction by John W. O'Malley ix A Short Debate Concerning the Distress, Alarm, and Sorrow of Jesus Disputatiuncula de taedio, pavore, tristicia lesu translated and annotated by Michael J. Heath i A Sermon on the Immense Mercy of God Concio de immensa Dei misericordia translated and annotated by Michael J. Heath 69 On Praying to God / Modus orandi Deum translated and annotated by John N. Grant 141 An Explanation of the Apostles' Creed Explanatio symboli apostolorum sive catechismus translated by Louis A. Perraud annotated by Laurel Carrington 231 Preparing for Death / De praeparatione ad mortem translated and annotated by John N. Grant 389 Works Frequently Cited 45i Short-Title Forms for Erasmus' Works 455 Index 459 Introduction The five pieces contained in this volume are among the twenty that the edi- tors of CWE have selected for inclusion in the series of spiritual and pastoral works, spiritualia and pastoralia. The basis for this category is Erasmus' fa- mous enclosure with his letter to Hector Boece of 15 March 1530, in which he listed his writings and divided them into nine ordines.1 The fifth ordo con- tained the works pertaining to pietas, the starting-point for our designation. For further discussion of the issues raised by the category, I refer the reader to the pertinent pages of my general introduction to this series, CWE 66 ix-xii. That introduction is presupposed as background for what I have to say here, and I urge the reader to consult it. By editorial decision it was meant to serve for all the volumes of the series and to deal in a general way with the wide variety of questions connected with these twenty pieces and with Erasmian pietas. Its arguments will not be repeated for the present volume. Towards the end of that introduction, I dealt briefly but in somewhat more detail with the three works contained in volume 66. I indicated that similar treatments would introduce the works in the subsequent volumes of the series, and such a treatment is what I will undertake for the five in this volume. These five works, except for their pertaining to the spiritualia and pastoralia, have no special reason for being grouped together here and appear in CWE 70 simply for reasons of editorial convenience. They are ar- ranged in chronological order according to the year of the editio princeps. With the exception of the 'Sermon on Mercy/ they appear here in English for the first time in modern translations. A few general observations may be made about them. As do so many of the other works in this series, they represent the 'Erasmus nobody knows/ Despite the huge surge of interest in Erasmus in the past thirty years, since the observance of the five hundredth anniversary of his birth in 1969, they i Allen Ep 2283. See also CWE 24 694-702.
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