It is enough to know simply that there is a certain inscrutable will in God, and as to what, why, and how far it wills, that is something we have no right whatever to inquire into, hanker after, care about, or meddle with, but only to fear and adore.
— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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On the Bondage of the Will

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1525

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Philosophical

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