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Annotated Luther Study Edition, The : The Bondage of the Will 1525
Overview: In autumn 1525, the author wrote this book as a response to humanist and theologian Erasmus of Rotterdam's On Free Will. The author's treatise is important on four accounts: First, the author wanted to show his own humanist education. Second, against Erasmus, who had maintained that the question of free will could not be decided just on the basis of the Bible, the author stressed the clarity imbedded in Scripture. Third, the author stressed that his denial of the free will will pertained to the issue of salvation, ... Finally, the author introduced the distinction of the revealed and the hidden God to make clear that a Christian must focus on God as shown in Jesus Christ rather than speculating about God's potency in general. Luther's argument on the matter of the bound and free will poses a challenge and an invitation for constructive contemporary theology.
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