LONELINESS AS THE EXISTENTIAL OF HUMAN BEING IN THE VIEWS OF ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM AND THE "FATHERS" OF REFORMATION
The article explores the loneliness as an existential of human existence, presented in the philosophical views of the Renaissance thinker - Erasmus of Rotterdam and the teachers-"fathers" of the Reformation. The tasks set by Erasmus, in fact, coincided with the ways of the Reformation: the Christianization of man and the humanization of faith, but fundamentally differed in the interpretation of human nature and the methods of its conversion to God and the justification of salvation. Erasmus of Rotterdam, originally combining Christian postulates and Renaissance ideals and images, defended the thesis that man must constantly strive for virtue, relying on free will and trusting in grace. The harmony of the ambivalence of the existential loneliness was faith. The question of the nature of man and his salvation was at the center of the controversy of Erasmus and Luther on the theological question of free will and divine predestination.