 Erasmus stressed that he was not prepared to pass judgment on the question of free will himself. Indeed his natural inclination was to take the Pyrrhonic route and suspend judgment since the evidence was not unequivocal. “I take so little pleasure in assertions that I will gladly seek refuge in Scepticism”, he writes (CWE 76: 7), but as a believer he was obliged to take a different route. He substituted for his own judgment the authoritative decision of the Catholic Church, which affirmed the existence of free will. As her obedient son, he accepted this resolution. Unlike the scholastics, then, Erasmus does not provide a dialectically reasoned answer, but submits to “commonly accepted creeds or universal synods” (LB IX: 1091C), that is, to long-standing tradition and to decisions arrived at by the consensus of authorized representatives of the Catholic Church. Modern scholars acknowledge this slant when they label Erasmus a “Christian humanist”. Likewise his skepticism might be called a “Christian skepticism”, that is, a pagan philosophy modified and adapted to Christian thought.