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Discourse on Free Will Paperback – 1 February 2005

by Desiderius Erasmus (Author), Martin Luther (Author)
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    Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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    1 February 2005
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    12.7 x 0.64 x 18.42 cm
  6. ISBN-10
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Desiderius Eramsus (1466/9-1536) was the most renowned scholar of his age, a celebrated humanist and Classicist, and the first teacher of Greek at Cambridge. An influential figure in the Protestant Reformation, though without ever breaking from the Church himself, he satirised both human folly and the corruption of the Church. Martin Luther (1483-1546) was the founder of the German Reformation. His 95 Theses became a manifesto for reform of the Catholic Church and led to his being tried for heresy. He remained in Germany, Professor of Biblical Exegesis at the University of Wittenburg, until his death, publishing a large number of works, including three major treatises and a translation of the New Testament into German.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.; New edition (1 February 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 136 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826477941
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826477941
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 0.64 x 18.42 cm
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Linda K. Unger
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on 4 January 2015
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Excellent book! for my daughter's college
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Adrian
2.0 out of 5 stars Used
Reviewed in the United States on 28 January 2024
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It would’ve been great to have known that the book was used and completely drawn in. Nonetheless, it is a great read, however, it is distracting to see each page full of notes.

My only encouragement, is to notify the potential buyer of such beforehand.
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Wm. W. Wells
4.0 out of 5 stars Balances the debate
Reviewed in the United States on 21 January 2021
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This book balances Erasmus' evenhanded discourse on freedom of the will, in reply to Luther, with Luther's response that, at least in terms of salvation, the will is in total bondage to the will of God. Luther's discourse is heavily redacted, as the larger portion of "The Bondage of the Will" is nothing more than invectives against Erasmus and his thought. Despite my roots in the Reformed camp, I came to dislike Luther's heavy-handedness. His bombast shows poorly against Erasmus attempt at congeniality. He who maintains that he was originally a supporter of Luther.
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Yvonne Stephenson
3.0 out of 5 stars Essays of Free Will
Reviewed in the United States on 17 November 2012
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I would like to say is this is a wonderful and interesting book to read. I am glad I read it. However it is a direct translation of the words of Erasmus & Luther's response to what the humanitarian wrote about how much man is able to direct his own life. This translation of language from the middle ages makes to book difficult to read. Still for anyone interested in the free will controversy this book is one of the most important one a person can read. I recoment it to anyone interested in religion and philosophy of that time period.
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Mark K. Rempel
2.0 out of 5 stars Tolerant Erasmus backed by angry Luther in short but dull book
Reviewed in the United States on 23 April 2015
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A short book book that took a long time to read. Assigned for a history of Reformation Europe course at a state university, it was of no interest. All theology. This book argues the doctrinal points of free will and determinism of man in terms of God. Erasmus was tolerant and scholarly but dull and I don't remember his arguments as I picked at this book little by little in between a huge stack of other books I was reading at the time. Martin Luther's section was heavily abridged and thus garbled and incoherent, but he strikes me as a rude dogmatist who sought absolute certainty of man's relationship to God. He demonizes free will, he seems at times to be a fatalist and a misanthrope, but he has faith in God's foreknowledge and omnipotence. He believes we can only be saved by God's grace and God's salvation.
I find all these arguments to be beside the point, for the scriptures are contradictory, based on bad history, insane philosophers and the belief that man had a relationship with a supernatural being, who mostly did not exist. God in the Bible is always angry and judgmental. Tolerance, which Erasmus preaches, is not found in the Bible. Nor is found in Luther. He is angry at something---possibly himself.
I did not get anything out of the book, only that Erasmus was a tolerant scholarly man, and that Luther was an angry doctrinaire furious at laxity, impiety, and anybody who disagreed with him. Hw was rude to Erasmus, calling him names. Luther wanted the certainty of doctrine, but he hated the Popes, the Papacy, and all Italians. He seems to be the root of all evil known as Nationalism, asserting Germaness, asserting the Truth and damning those that disagree with him as evil people; He denied the free will of man, which is a horrible thought. He wanted a moral, national certainty of identity based on the gospel truth. Nothing is worse than Nationalism and Religion combined, and Luther seems to embody the worst of that. The god-and-country doctrines of Martin Luther brings out the worst in Christians. He denounced everyone as evil, but he was the evil one.
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