For all their doctrinal antagonism, the treatises on the will of Erasmus and Luther betray a fundamental affinity in their twofold ambiva-lence toward dialogue: whether a fundamental issue like the will should be debated at all; and whether dialogue is the appropriate vehicle for such a discussion. In both works, vestiges and adumbrations of literary dialogue suggest that the debate between Erasmus and Luther is as much literary as theological.

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Original publication: McCutcheon, Robert R. "The Missing Dialogue Concerning the Will Between Erasmus and Luther." Renaissance and Reformation 33 (1): 2010. 35-47. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v33i1.11324. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.