 On a more serious note, he voiced two objections against the dialectical disputations of the theologians: “The portentious filth of their barbarous and artificial style” obscured the meaning (CWE 3: 124), and their argumentation lacked a moral dimension. Scholastic disputations honed intellectual skills but failed to make better Christians of the protagonists. “Well, we are training not a pugilist but a theologian”, Erasmus says in his Methodus, “and a theologian who prefers to express with his life rather than in syllogisms what he professes” (CWE 41: 452).