- ^ "Erasmus says that his prefatory remarks pertain to the controversy at hand more than the body of his work. It is more important that he instil moderation in his readers than he make the particular case for free will." McCutcheon, Robert R. (1997). "The Missing Dialogue Concerning the Will Between Erasmus and Luther". Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme. 21 (1): 35–47. doi:10.33137/rr.v33i1.11324. ISSN 0034-429X. JSTOR 43465106. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- ^ Historian Volker Leppin noted "anti-Catholicism does not lie at the root of Reformation, even if later on it obviously became part of the whole Reformation framework."[3]
- ^ Latin: esse omnia absoluta et necessaria
- ^ He had adopted a similar strategy the previous year, where the collequy Amicitia presented his positive thoughts on friendship while the Spongia dealt with negative, specific issues mentioning individuals.
- ^ Erasmus further removed some polemical material on the request of Bishop Christoph von Utenheim, the beloved Bishop of Basel.[10]: 70
- ^ Erasmus did not approve of the language of merit being used for our human response to grace. The 1547 English translation has "Now if there be nothing here that thou mayst ascribe to thy merits, then glorify the mercy of God, worship the mercy of God, embrace and kiss the mercy of God."[12]
- ^ We might say that Erasmus proposed sola misericordia instead of sola gratia.
- ^ "For the moment, to help you understand the full breadth of the Lord's immense mercy, you should know that in Holy Writ the word 'mercy' sometimes implies munificence, sometimes prevenient grace, or elevating grace, and quite often consoling grace; elsewhere it implies medicinal grace, but very often pardoning grace, or even punishing grace."[10]: 72, 91, 102
- ^ His philosophia Christiani "demonstrates the combination of Biblical precepts and the wisdom of ancient scholars without referring back to the medieval scholastic tradition." Wolf, Erik (1 January 1978). "Religion and Right in the Philosophia Christriana of Erasmus from Rotterdam". UC Law Journal. 29 (6): 1535. ISSN 0017-8322.
- ^ "Erasmus’ tract…is a showpiece of his methodology. He begins his argumentation in the classic skeptical fashion by collating scriptural evidence for and against the concept of free will and demonstrating that there is no consensus and no rational way of resolving the resulting dilemma." Rummel, Erika; MacPhail, Eric (2021). "Desiderius Erasmus". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ^ Erasmus also expressed this view in 1499's Prayer of Erasmus of Rotterdam to the Son of the Virgin, Jesus as "It is a great thing, I know, that a wretched worm asks of Thee, not only beyond his merits, but beyond human prayers and human understanding.... Therefore, not for my merits, which are none or evil, but by thyself, I beseech Thee. . . " Rice, Eugene F. (1950). "Erasmus and the Religious Tradition, 1495-1499". Journal of the History of Ideas. 11 (4): 387–411. doi:10.2307/2707589. ISSN 0022-5037. JSTOR 2707589.
- ^ "which he must have guessed would provoke Luther to reply, in his De servo arbitrio, with such vehemence that no reconciliation of views was possible." Kerr, Fergus (2005). "Comment: Erasmus". New Blackfriars. 86 (1003): 257–258. ISSN 0028-4289.
- ^ "Gerhard O. Forde represents Erasmus’ method as a “box score” method, whereas Luther might rely on just “one passage” to convince of truth." Pekham, John (2007). "An Investigation of Luther's View of the Bondage of the Will with Implications for Soteriology and Theodicy". Journal of the Adventist Theological Society. 18 (2). Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ^ That Erasmus preferred to use patristic, scriptural and rhetorical arguments does not mean that dialectical Scholastic conclusions were different: e.g. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica "Man has free-will: otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards, and punishments would be in vain." Q.83 Art 1 "SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: Free-will (Prima Pars, Q. 83)". www.newadvent.org.
- ^ "It is one of his most vigorous and profound books, full of grand ideas and shocking exaggerations, that border on Manichaeism and fatalism." Schaff, Philip. History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. ch 73. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
- ^ "From beginning to end his work, for all its positive features, is a torrent of invective. (Luther says) The Diatribe (On free Will) sleeps, snores, is drunk, does not know what it is saying, etc. Its author is an atheist, Lucian himself, a Proteus, etc. Augustijn, Cornelis (2001). "Twentieth-Annual Birthday Lecture: Erasmus as Apologist: The Hyperaspistes II". Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook. 21 (1): 1–13. doi:10.1163/187492701X00038.
- ^ For example, it was not available English until 1999. Augustijn, Cornelis (2001). "Twentieth-Annual Birthday Lecture: Erasmus as Lecture: Birthday Apologist: The Hyperaspistes II". Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook. 21 (1): 1–13. doi:10.1163/187492701X00038.
- ^ "Was Lutheranism Lutheran? When it crystallized in the Formula of Concord ... it rejected the logic of predestinationism implied in Luther's Bondage of the Will. MacCulloch, Diarmaid (2006). "2. Protestantism in Mainland Europe: New Directions". Renaissance Quarterly. 59 (3): 698–706. doi:10.1353/ren.2008.0404. S2CID 162265932.
This content is from Wikipedia. GradeSaver is providing this content as a courtesy until we can offer a professionally written study guide by one of our staff editors. We do not consider this content professional or citable. Please use your discretion when relying on it.
