 As well as this issue of free will, it is also intriguing to consider another point of connection between the two thinkers, namely the influence of Luther on Hobbes’s political and social philosophy, though this issue is less explicitly documented through Hobbes’s works than the previous one. Nonetheless, both shared a belief in the need for a powerful state if the precariousness of life in a state of nature is to be avoided, given the lack of community between fallen individuals, so that both can be said to offer similar justifications for state authority, while then perhaps as a result being guilty of tending towards authoritarianism in their political thought. (For further comparison, see Kodalle 1990.)