The Bondage of the Will: A Simple Overview
Thinking Fellows
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4.8 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
What led Martin Luther to write The Bondage of the Will? This podcast explores the historical background and central message of one of Luther's most significant works. Written as a response to Erasmus, Luther's book defends the biblical truth that salvation is not the result of human choice or effort but rests entirely on God's gracious will. The Bondage of the Will delivers a message of profound comfort. God Himself has acted to save sinners through His Son, Jesus Christ, who takes away our sins and gives us eternal life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the thinking fellow's podcast. name is Caleb Keith, and today I am joined by Scott Keith and Steve Paulson. And we are doing an introduction to the bondage of the will today. We're hoping to provide an outline for our listeners in general, but also to those attending are here we still |
| 0:40.4 | stand conference, October 17th through 19. Oh, 17th through 19. No way. 16th through. |
| 0:47.7 | It's 17 through 19. You know what? If you're going, it doesn't matter that we get the dates, right? |
| 0:51.5 | I only notice because I said it wrong to somebody a few days ago. |
| 0:54.8 | It's 17 to 19. |
| 0:56.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.7 | Show up early, enjoy the beach. |
| 0:58.4 | It won't. |
| 0:59.8 | I told somebody 15 through the 17th. |
| 1:01.9 | And then they got back to me the next day. |
| 1:03.3 | They're like, is it start on Wednesday? |
| 1:06.2 | Or Tuesday or Wednesday? |
| 1:07.1 | I'm like, I don't think so. |
| 1:08.8 | I got that wrong. |
| 1:09.8 | Go to SeaWorld. Have a good time. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:12.5 | The seals are all out there. So, uh, no, but we, I want to provide, I was talking to some people, uh, um, I think my wife should get credit for this. And she said, is there an abridged or, you know, short version of the |
| 1:30.3 | bondage of the will that I could read before the conference? I would say if you wanted to read |
| 1:36.5 | an expanded version, you could read Outlaw, the Three Volumes of Outlaw God. Why not give her three |
| 1:41.8 | volumes of Outlaw God? If you listen at four times speed, you might be able to get through the five years of the podcast before this. |
| 1:52.7 | But I said, you know what, that's kind of a smart idea. We should try to pull that off, at least in podcast form to begin with, before the conference. It was too |
| 2:01.3 | late to publish some sort of abridged guide to the bondage of the will before that. But we certainly |
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