Desiderius Erasmus · Philosophy
In 1524 Erasmus finally broke with Luther over the deepest question of all: does the human will contribute anything to salvation? His <em>On Free Will</em> defended a real, if small, human cooperation with grace; Luther’s ferocious reply, <em>On the Bondage of the Will</em>, insisted the will is wholly bound - and Erasmus refused the necessity Luther demanded.
You learned that Erasmus’s De Libero Arbitrio (1524) defined free choice as a power to apply oneself to or turn from what leads to salvation, defending human cooperation with grace and the obscurity of the question; that Luther’s De Servo Arbitrio (1525) denied all such freedom; and that Erasmus rejected L…
Leads to Martin Luther.
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