Mark B. McFadden

“Christianity, Erasmus noted, is most truly taught not by trained theologians but by those who show by their very lives that riches should be disdained, that a wrong should not be avenged, that good should be wished for those deserving ill, and that death should be desired by the devout, “since it is nothing other than a passage to immortality.” Anyone who, inspired by Christ, preaches to, inculcates, and exhorts men with such teachings “is indeed truly a theologian, even if he should be a common laborer or weaver.”
― Michael Massing, Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind