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What was Erasmus' approach to the growing European religious Reformation?

  • Middle-road approach

  • Radical reformer

  • Conservative defender

  • Indifferent observer

Answer

Erasmus took a middle-road (via media) approach to the growing European religious Reformation. He remained a Catholic and sought to reform the Church from within, which disappointed and even angered scholars in both the Catholic and Protestant camps.
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