Maybe, maybe not.
We certainly wouldn't have had the French Revolution, which was the philosophical capstone of Luther's work.
And with all due regard for our Lutheran friends, that's not a compliment.
Speaking as a Lutheran, isn't that statement giving just a little more credit to Luther than Luther himself would have wanted? ersh. I went to a Lutheran Bible school and the occasional laudings of Luther surely made me and others (who actually thought about it) shudder. We are all just channels through which God works. I hesitate to honor any man *too* much. He had his faults as well.