continuously existing free choice can be cajoled, enticed, controlled, frightened, persuaded, impressed, etc., into making “the right choice.” But in a pluralized society, the will is unable to make such a choice and can only lapse into a skepticism that has to settle for relativism. Whatever is right for you is the right choice. In his debate with Erasmus, Luther saw that the attempt to combine the radical Pauline gospel with even the slightest hint of free choice could only lead to thoroughgoing
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