Bondage of the Will
Author: first_name: Martin
last_name: Luther
Language: English
Year: 1525

<i>On the Bondage of the Will</i> (Latin: 'De Servo Arbitrio', literally, "On Un-free Will", or "Concerning Bound Choice"), by Martin Luther, was published in December 1525. It was his reply to Desiderius Erasmus's <i>De libero arbitrio diatribe sive collatio</i> or <i>On Free Will</i>, which had appeared in September 1524 as Erasmus's first public attack on Luther, after being wary about the methods of the reformer for many years. At issue was whether human beings, after the Fall of Man, are fr