Abstract
The article analyses Nietzsche's reflection of Luther's thinking. It focuses primarily on the folowing four aspects of Nietzsche's perception of Luther: i) as a destroyer of the Church, ii) as an impossible monk, iii) as a founder of Germanhood, iv) and as a barbarian of the spirit.
The second line of the text shows that the subsquent history of the German nation was to a large extent pre-determined by the "absence of self-creation" which is anchored in Luther's bipolar anthropology of anger and grace.