Uh, who is Erasmus? Why is he important for the reformation outside of this later debacle with Luther? Like, why is he important for the reformation especially early on, and who is this guy?

It's, it, it's a very excellent question.

So he's born in b- in, uh, 1569, um, in Rotterdam.

His, um, uh, parents are not married.

His father kind of skips the family, uh, and leaves them very little and then goes off to Rome and becomes a, a priest.

And basically he has some money a- and they say, you know, "Basically all the money's been used up.

We're gonna dump you in a monastery." And so he gets du- he doesn't wanna go in, so he's, he goes to the monastery, and eventually convinces them to let him go to the University of Paris where he gets a degree.

Explain what this concept of the hidden and revealed God is, uh, Dr. Kilcrease if you could 'cause this comes out in the book.