Written a mere eight years following the posting of the 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, the Bondage of the Will bears witness to how far and how fast Martin Luther's fire of reform spread through sixteenth century Europe. This masterpiece of Reformation thought was witten to oppose the doctrine set forth by the renowned scholar Desiderius Erasmus in Diatribe of Fre…
Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years that followed., Luther clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520. In these writings Luther tried to frame his ideas in terms that would be comprehensible not only to the clergy but to people from a wide range of backgr…