biography
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Erastus, Thomas
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originally Thomas Liebler, also spelled Lieber or Lüber
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pronunciation:
[erastus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1524–83)
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| biography:
| Theologian and physician, born in Basel, N Switzerland. He studied theology at Basel, and philosophy and medicine in Italy, and was appointed physician to the counts of Henneberg. He was professor of medicine at Heidelberg, physician to the Elector Palatine (1558), and professor of ethics at Basel from 1580. In theology he was a follower of Zwingli, was opposed to Calvin's system of Church government, and argued against the practice of excommunication. His name is preserved in Erastianism, a doctrine (which he himself neither maintained nor denied) giving the state authority over Church matters. |
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