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  • Contra academicos, De beata vita, De ordine, De magistro, De libero arbitrio.

    Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009

  • Luther, Martin 1525: On the Bondage of the Will (De servo arbitrio) New Jersey (1957).

    The Idea of Design in Nature: Science or Phenomenology? By Jakob Wolf William Harryman 2009

  • Moreover, Valla's insistence on the will as the locus of moral behavior seems compromised by the predestinarianism advocated by the interlocutor “Lorenzo” in his dialogue De libero arbitrio (On Free Will).

    Lorenzo Valla Nauta, Lodi 2009

  • Since (for quite other reasons) Luther delayed writing his rebuttal for more than a year after publication of De libero arbitrio, Erasmus (who was inclined to suspect conspiracies against himself) grumbled in the preface to his hasty counter-rebuttal, part 1 of Hyperaspistes, that De servo arbitrio “is the work of many people produced over a long period of time” (Ep 1667, CWE 12: 41).

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • Martin Luther, in his harsh but rhetorically effective reply, De servo arbitrio, would not play Erasmus 'gentle game of polite, gentlemanly discussion of a debatable issue under the guidance of Cicero's Academic skepticism.

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • In his only two explicitly theological works, De libero arbitrio and Hyperaspistes, both directed against Martin Luther's assertion that the human will is enslaved by sin,

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • The open conflict with Luther began with publication of De libero arbitrio in September 1524.

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • De libero arbitrio, he consulted the works of many patristic authorities (notably Origen, John Chrysostom, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine) and also major medieval theologians like Bernard of Clairvaux, Thomas Aquinas, and Duns Scotus.

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • In reality, Luther considered not deigning to write any reply to De libero arbitrio and eventually produced the rebuttal entirely by himself in just a few weeks of the autumn of 1525, after which it was promptly published, appearing on the very last day of the year.

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • When he wrote De libero arbitrio and even the two parts of his second work on free will, Hyperaspistes, produced in response to Luther's savage attack on him in De servo arbitrio, his goal was to preserve peace, harmony, and unity in the church.

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

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