Editing Erasmus (section)

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According to historian Christopher Ocker, the early reformers "needed tools that let their theological distinctions pose as commonplaces in a textual theology; [...] Erasmus provided the tools", but this tendentious distinction-making, reminiscent of the recent excesses of Scholasticism to Erasmus' eyes, "was precisely what Erasmus disliked about Luther" and "Protestant polemicists".<ref name=ocker2022/>

Erasmus wrote books against aspects of the teaching, impacts or threats of several other Reformers:<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Regier |first1=Willis |title=Review of Erasmus, Controversies: Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 78, trans. Peter Matheson, Peter McCardle, Garth Tissol, and James Tracy. |journal=Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature |date=1 January 2011 |volume=9 |issue=2 |url=https://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmrcl/vol9/iss2/5 |access-date=6 August 2023 |issn=1523-5734 |archive-date=6 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806082322/https://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmrcl/vol9/iss2/5/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

* [[Ulrich von Hutten]]: {{lang|la|[[#A Sponge to wipe away the Spray of Hutten (1523)|Spongia adversus aspergines Hutteni]]}} (1523)
* [[Martin Bucer]]: ''Responsio ad fratres Inferioris Germaniae ad epistolam apologeticam incerto autoreproditam'' (1530)
* {{ill|Heinrich Eppendorf|de}}: ''Admonitio adversus mendacium et obstrectationem'' (1530)

However, Erasmus maintained friendly relations with other Protestants, notably the irenic [[Melanchthon]] and [[Albrecht Dürer]].

A common accusation, supposedly started by antagonistic monk-theologians,{{refn|group=note|Namely Egmondanus, the Louvain Carmelite Nicolaas Baechem.<ref name=ocker2022/>}} made Erasmus responsible for Martin Luther and the Reformation: "Erasmus laid the egg, and Luther hatched it." Erasmus wittily dismissed the charge, claiming that Luther had "hatched a different bird entirely".<ref name=renolds>Reynolds, Terrence M. (1977). [http://www.ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/reynoldserasmusresponsibleluther.pdf "Was Erasmus Responsible for Luther? A Study of the Relationship of the Two Reformers and Their Clash Over the Question of the Will"]. ''Concordia Theological Journal''. p. 2. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326031149/http://www.ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/reynoldserasmusresponsibleluther.pdf |date=26 March 2023 }}. Reynolds references Arthur Robert Pennington (1875), [https://archive.org/details/lifeandcharacte00penngoog/page/n242 ''The Life and Character of Erasmus''], p. 219.</ref> Erasmus-reader [[Peter Canisius]] commented: "Certainly there was no lack of eggs for Luther to hatch."<ref name=canisius>{{cite book |first=Himer M.|last= Pabel|chapter= Praise and Blame: Peter Canisius's ambivalent assessment of Erasmus |editor-last1=Enenkel |editor-first1=Karl Alfred Engelbert |title=The reception of Erasmus in the early modern period |date=2013 |page=139 |doi=10.1163/9789004255630_007 | isbn=978-90-04-25563-0}}</ref><ref group=note>Another commentator: "Erasmus laid the egg that Luther broke." {{cite web |last1=Midmore |first1=Brian |title=The differences between Erasmus and Luther in their approach to reform |url=http://www.passionforgrace.org.uk/Erasluther.html |access-date=3 December 2023 |date=7 February 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207041537/http://www.passionforgrace.org.uk/Erasluther.html |archive-date=7 February 2007 }}</ref>