Erasmus and Luther: The Battle over Free Will (Hackett Classics)

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.

• Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
• King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare)
• The Interior Castle
• The Prince (Norton Critical Editions)
• The Protestant Reformation
• The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)
• Oration on the Dignity of Man
• Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
• Metaphysical Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)
• The Institutes of Christian Religion