and other universities. He became cathedral preacher in Augsburg in 1520. A correspondent of Erasmus, he had gained a reputation as a learned and progressive young theologian by 1525. He tempered his former enthusiasm for the great humanist scholar’s work and criticized both Erasmus’s churchmanship and his doctrine of the human will after the appearance of the Diatribe.11 A decade later, as he prepared a homiletical handbook for the pastors under his supervision as superintendent of the churches