How long does it take to read The Bondage of the Will?
The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther takes about 6 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 25 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1525. 350 pages, about 96,250 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Bondage of the Will is fundamental to an understanding of the primary doctrines of the Reformation. In these pages, Luther gives extensive treatment to what he saw as the heart of the gospel. Free will was no academic question to Luther; the whole gospel of the grace of God, he believed, was bound up with it and stood or fell according to the way one decided it. Luther affirms our total inability to save ourselves and the sovereignty of divine grace in our salvation. He upholds the doctrine of justification by faith and defends predestination as determined by the foreknowledge of God. - Back cover.
Subjects: Justification, Christianity, Grace (Theology), Free will and determinism, Fiction, religious, Religious aspects
