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The Reformation · 1524

On Free Will

De Libero Arbitrio

Desiderius Erasmus · c. 1466–1536

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What it is

A careful, deliberately undogmatic argument that scripture is obscure on the will, that some human cooperation with grace must be assumed, and that certainty here is not required.

Why it lasted

The break between humanism and the Reformation, and the provocation that produced Luther's Bondage of the Will a year later.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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