Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method (Lutheran Quarterly Books Series)

Galvanized by Erasmus’s teaching on free will, Martin Luther wrote *De servo arbitrio*, or *The Bondage of the Will,* insisting that the sinful human will could not turn itself to God. In this first study to investigate the sixteenth-century reception of *De servo*, Robert Kolb unpacks Luther’s theology and recounts his followers’ ensuing disputes until their resolution in the Lutheran churches’ 1577 *Formula of Concord.*Read less