 As Leibniz himself writes, from his “very tender youth onwards”, even before he went to university, he “came across a part of Luther’s book De servo arbitrio”, while going on to study works written on this issue not only by other Lutherans and by Reformed writers, but also those in the Catholic tradition (see Backus 2016: 257, notes 10 and 11). Leibniz’s interest in this debate was later to lead him to contribute belatedly to the controversy between Hobbes and Bramhall outlined above, which he discusses in an appendix to his Theodicy (1710): “Reflexions on the Work that Mr. Hobbes Published in English on ‘Freedom, Necessity and Chance’”. Leibniz notes that Hobbes’s view that “divine foreknowledge would be sufficient to establish an absolute necessity of events” resembles that of Luther in De servo arbitrio, or at least Luther there “spoke so”; but then Leibniz suggests this Lutheran position goes further than it needs to do, as 