On the Bondage of the Will (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 De libero arbitrio diatribe sive collatio or On Free Will, 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 free to choose good or evil. The debate between Luther and Erasmus is one of the earliest of the Reformation over the issue of free will and predestination. (Summary by wikipedia)
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Okay! At your leisure, please put the section numbers in front of the titles in the MW, like "00 - Prefaces". That way if you make any mistakes in the ID tags, I can just import them from the Magic Window. And if you do it, I won't have to.
Moving you to Going Solo. When you get a couple sections up, we can advertise for a DPL.
Ha ha! Sorry - it's the Magic Window. As DPL, you get to go in and put your PL notes in the notes field that shows on the first post of the project thread.
Is there a more personal name that you would like me to use?
I have uploaded Section 02 to the MW. Now that you are the DPL, I won't bother to write "PL needed" with each new section. Instead, I'll just alert you to it with a post like this one.