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Bondage of the Will

by Martin Luther, 1483-1546

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Table of Contents

About this Edition


Title Page of the Print Edition


Martin Luther's Introduction


Part One: Erasmus' Preface Reviewed

  1. Assertions Defended
  2. Erasmus Shewn to be a Sceptic
  3. Christian Truth is Revealed and Assertained, not Hidden
  4. Scripture is Falsely Accused of Obscurity
  5. Freewill a Necessary Subject
  6. Erasmus' Christianity
  7. Erasmus' Theology Exposed by Similies
  8. Absolute Necessity of the Subject of Freewill in order to True Piety
  9. Erasmus has Omitted the Question of God's Prescience
  10. God's Foreknowledge Absolute, Flows From Erasmus' Confession
  11. Objection to the Term 'Necessity' Admitted
  12. Universal Prevalence of this Persuasion
  13. Erasmus' Pretended and Boasted Moderation
  14. All Scripture Truth May be Published Safely
  15. The Argument 'Some Truths Ought Not to be Published'
  16. Erasmus' Three Examples of Truths not to be Published'
  17. The Importance of the Question
  18. 'Peace of the World Disturbed'
  19. Doubts Whether the Dogma of Free Confession be Scriptural.
  20. Erasmus' Counsel About Persons, Time and Place
  21. The Fathers are not of Equal Authority with Christ
  22. The Injuriousness of Certain Paradoxes

Last Updated: 19 January 2004