Human Nature

"Human nature is blind, so that it does not know its own strength - or, rather, sickness; moreover, being proud, it thinks it knows and can do everything." Martin Luther, Bondage of the Will, IV.v. shane lems

Luther and ‘By the Law Comes Knowledge of Sin’

Martin Luther's classic, De servo arbitrio (On The Enslaved Will; a.k.a. The Bondage of the Will) is - as many of you know - a response written to the great humanist scholar, Desiderius Erasmus' (d. 1536) Diatribe seu collation de libero arbitrio (Discussion or Dialoge Concerning Free Will). This is one of those "must read" …