One week after the lectures and the source studies on the Reformation started the Wittenberg Summer Course reached a first interim target: The first week presented Luther’s biography and theology as the chain of ideas and events that initiated the Reformation. Luther’s famous tract ‘The Freedom of a Christian’ published in 1520 served as summary of Luther’s theology: Christians “live in Christ through faith and in the neighbor through live. Through faith they are caught up beyond themselves into God; likewise through love they fall down beneath themselves into the neighbor – remaining nevertheless always in God and God’s love” (The Annotated Luther, vol. 1, p. 530).
