his Handbook for a Militant Christian it was with the belief that a Christian armed with prayer and knowledge might successfully resist and overcome the seduction of vice and moral laxity on the one hand and superstition on the other. When he read Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation he was alarmed by the implications of what he read. In that disputation, Luther wrote, “Free will, after the Fall, even when doing the best that it can, commits a moral sin.” To Erasmus, this seemed to create a scenario in