In that year Erasmus’s Diatribe on Free Will appeared. It made clear the cardinal differences between the two men. Luther believed that the human will was enslaved, totally unable, apart from grace, to love or serve God. But Erasmus considered this a dangerous doctrine since it threatened to relieve man of his moral responsibility. What Luther regarded basic to biblical religion, Erasmus dismissed in the name of scholarship. The differences in the Reformation and the Renaissance lie right there, in the view of man. The Reformers preached the original sin of man and looked upon the world as
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