Fatal Discord: Luther vs Erasmus and the Fight for the Western Mind

When:
Wednesday, Apr 18, 2018 6:00p -
8:00p

Where:
Divinity Hall
14 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, Party, University

Event website:
https://www.ministryofideas.org/events/fataldiscord

Join us for a public conversation with Michael Massing, the author of Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind which explores the enduring fault line in Western thinking between Christian humanism and evangelical Christianity. Massing describes how the introduction of new ways of reading the Bible set loose social and cultural forces that helped shatter the millennial unity of Christendom and whose echoes can still be heard today.


About Michael Massing


Michael Massing is a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. Michael Massing received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard and an MS from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He often writes for the New York Review of Books concerning the media and foreign affairs. He has written for The American Prospect, The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. In addition to his magazine contributions, he has written on the War on Drugs in his book, The Fix (2002), and on American journalism, Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq. Massing received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1992.


About Ministry of Ideas


Ministry of Ideas is a podcast dedicated to investigating and illuminating the ideas that shape our society. It is an initiative of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School. It is produced in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is featured in The Boston Globe Ideas Section. Ministry of Ideas is a proud member of Hub & Spoke, a new collective of independent, idea-driven podcasts.

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