Bondage of The Will
The second breakout session was on Martin Luther's "Bondage of the Will" by Donovan Riley. Humanism focuses on our human potential. Erasmus writes on the freedom of the will. The expectation was that Martin Luther would write a response. Luther did not want to respond. But his colleagues couldn't get him to respond so they asked his wife, Katie to convince him. Martin Luther wrote it in German and Latin. People said about Bondage of the Will--You have written on "the hinge" on what everything depends. It's hard to understand Bondage of the Will without reading what Erasmus wrote. What does God's wrath feel like according to the Bible? According to Paul, it is free will. What is the bondage of the will? What our heart wants, our mind always justifies. Luther--The only thing we contribute to our salvation is our sin and resistance. Erasmus starts in the Law in the freedom of the will. He did a word study on "free will". H...