Hans Denck (1500-1527): Gelassenheit (yieldedness) as the solution to the problem of the (un)free will and evil.
Hans Denck 1500-1527 While Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) defended the idea that human beings have a free will to choose the good (anti-determinism), Martin Luther (1483-1546) defended the Augustinian idea that the human will is determined by God, and is thus unfree (determinism): God is 'absolute' and 'necessary', and thus determines human beings who are 'relative' and 'contingent' ( On the Bondage of the Will ). There is a third option, however.