 The Theodicy also contains discussion of another key Lutheran issue, namely the relation between faith and reason, which is specifically raised in a “preliminary dissertation” at the start of the text. In reviewing the history of debates on this question, Leibniz admits that Luther “spoke sometimes as if [he] rejected philosophy and deemed it inimical to faith”, but he then seeks to qualify Luther’s position, arguing that by “philosophy” Luther meant our understanding of nature, or the philosophy of the schools, so that it is only philosophy in this narrow sense that cannot comprehend matters of faith. Leibniz likewise notes Luther’s early hostility to Aristotle, but that 