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.