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Klappentext This compilation of writings from Erasmus and Luther's great debate--over free will and grace! and their respective efficacy for salvation--offers a fuller representation of the disputants' main arguments than has ever been available in a single volume in English. Included are key! corresponding selections from not only Erasmus' conciliatory A Discussion or Discourse concerning Free Will and Luther's forceful and fully argued rebuttal! but--with the battle now joined--from Erasmus' own forceful and fully argued rebuttal of Luther. Students of Reformation theology! Christian humanism! and sixteenth-century rhetoric will find here the key to a wider appreciation of one of early modern Christianity's most illuminating and disputed controversies. Zusammenfassung A compilation of writings from the authors' debate - over free will and grace! and their respective efficacy for salvation that offers a fuller representation of the disputants' main arguments. Preface; Introduction; An Outline of All Three Works; Erasmus: A Discussion or Discourse Concerning Free Will (1524); Luther: The Enslaved Will (1525); Erasmus: The Shield-Bearer Defending, A Discussion, Part 1 (1526); Erasmus: The Shield-Bearer Defending, A Discussion, Part 2 (1527); Bibliography & Abbreviations; Index.
