What exactly – Was Erasmus responding to and what was said in it by Luther that got the church so worked up and asking Erasmus to respond to him? Yeah, so Luther,

you must remember, was schooled in what is called the via moderna, the via moderna theology of Gabriel Beale, William Ockham, which had this idea that if man does what is in him, God will reward him with his grace.

So man must do what he needs to do.

And if he does his utmost, God will reward him with grace, right? to finish the job sort of thing, to achieve ultimate salvation.

So Luther was brought up with that.

But then, as you can tell from that description, that's a theology of works, of works righteousness, that we've got to do what is in us in order to merit grace, in order to gain grace.

And for Luther, little by little, as he's discovering the gospel, as he's teaching through the books of Romans and Psalms, as a theology professor at Wittenberg, who's discovering that actually our sin problem is more profoundly devastating than the Via Moderna would have us believe.

Does it still represent Roman Catholic teaching? Well, at least what the side that Erasmus presented, does it still represent Roman Catholic convictions on the will in modern day?