List of Famous people with last name Erastus

Thomas Erastus

Thomas Lüber
First Name Thomas
Last Name Erastus
Born on September 7, 1524
Died on December 31, 1583 (aged 59)
Born in Switzerland, Aargau

Thomas Erastus was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian. He wrote 100 theses in which he argued that the sins committed by Christians should be punished by the State, and that the Church should not withhold Sacraments as a form of punishment. They were published in 1589, after his death, with the title Explicatio gravissimae quaestionis. His name was later applied to Erastianism.

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