In 'The Freedom of a Christian Man' (1520), an open letter to Pope Leo written in Latin (later translated to German), Luther argues that without faith man is completely egocentric and incapable of free will, and that only God's inscrutable grace enables freedom.

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the final the last one of his three great works from 1520 is called the freedom of a christian man... he makes the argument that without faith man is completely egocentric and incapable of free will this if you stop and think about it is essentially an augustinian argument we need god's inscrutable grace

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The Bible and Western Culture - Luther and the ReformationMichael Sugrue
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:25:36 PM

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