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Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will; To the Venerable Mister Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1525 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Martin Luther’s classic treatise is a reply to Desiderius Erasmus’ work On the Freedom of the Will. Both wrote on the human will, but from different perspectives. Erasmus, the humanist and scholar of classical Greek, and Martin Luther, the reformer and theologian, differed greatly in their approaches. In this unique translation from the original Latin of a historically significant work, Edward T....

pray, about compulsion and force? Have I not in all my writings testified, that I speak of a necessity of immutability?q I know that the Father willingly begets; I know that Judas betrayed Christ through an act of his will. But I affirm that this will was about to be in this very Judas, certainly and infallibly, if God foreknew it. If what I affirm be not yet sufficiently understood, ‘let us refer one sort of necessity—that of violence—to the work; another sort of necessity—that of infallibility—
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