Final Reading Assignment

Final Reading Assignment

You should try to read all of Erasmus, but focus especially on these sections:

Prefatory Observations (all), pp.35-42

Part I

	Definition of Free Choice, pp.47-48
	Different Kinds of Grace, pp.51-54
	Further Old Testament, pp.54-59
	St. Paul Also, pp.61-64

Part II

	The Problem of the Will, pp.66-68
	Two Kinds of Necessity, pp.68-69
	The Potter and the Clay, pp.70-74

Part III

	The Will is Not Powerless, pp.79-81
	Man's Cooperation, pp.81-84
	What Merit Is There, pp.84-85

Epilogue (all), pp.85-97

You should not try to read all of Luther, instead you should focus on these sections:

Introduction (all), pp.101-104

Part I (all), pp.105-144

Part II (all), pp.144-169

Part III

	Erasmus' Definition of Free Choice, pp.169-177
	Three Views of Grace and Free Choice, pp.177-182
	God Preached, God Hidden, pp.200-205

Part IV

Read this whole part, except you can skip the section on "Jacob and Esau" and you can skip the final section of the Part (i.e. the part on "Erasmus' Way of Reasoning")

Part VI

	St. Paul: Universal Sinfulness, pp.293-302
	"Congruous" and "Condign" Merit, pp.309-312
	The Mercy and Justice of God, pp.329-332

[Note: Jewish scholars for perhaps 3000 years have held that Deuteronomy 30:11-14 is decisive proof that humans have free will to obey or disobey God's commandments, i.e. we are free to do good or evil. It is well worth looking at how Erasmus and Luther deal with this passage.]