If one sees personal liberty assured, one does not notice at all how, if a new issue happens to arise, the most glaring unfreedom becomes dominant.
Why speak at all of good works and virtue, when Luther’s doctrine of the passivity and unfreedom of the will denies the existence of all liberty as regards either virtue or sin?
But uncertainty is a matter of degree, and thereforeunfreedom may easily be regarded as a matter of degree[127].
But then these passages draw the line between freedom and unfreedom at a point high in the legal scale, a point far above the heads of the villani.
Here, again, the ideas of freedom and unfreedom find a part to play.
Then, again, there may seem to us to be more of unfreedom in the case of one who was born a servant than in the case of one who has contracted to serve, though we should note that one may be born to serve without being born rightless.
Owing to his assertion of man’s unfreedom and passivity, Luther found it very difficult to retain the true meaning of conscience.
Here we get just a glimpse of his theory of human unfreedom and of God’s sole action, so far as this was in place in a work intended for the “unschooled laity.
The doctrine of the unfreedom of the will as here expressed by Melanchthon who then was still the true mouthpiece of Luther, though free from Luther’s rhetorical exaggerations, remains extremely harsh.
These and other passages from St. Augustine which Luther quotes in proof of the unfreedom of the will really tell against him; he either tears them from their context or else he falsifies their meaning.
Owing to the unfreedom of the will, the devil, according to Luther, holds the field in man’s heart and rules over all his spiritual faculties.
Given the presentunfreedom of the sea, therefore, Great Britain's vital interests oppose those of Russia as they now oppose those of Germany.
It is probable that the three fragments, “On the unfreedom of the human will,” etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unfreedom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
