Kirsi Stjerna is the First Lutheran, Los Angeles/Southwest California Synod Professor of Lutheran History and Theology at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. She is the author of Lutheran Theology: A Grammar of Faith (2020) and editor of Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Texts, and Contexts (2023).

• Introduction: 1. Freedom questions, religion, and Luther; 2. Luther's journey with religion; 3. Authority and sources; 4. The way of the cross; Part II: 5. God of absolute goodness; 6. The human condition; 7. Justification – Union with Christ; Part III: 8. Religion reformed – Luther's testament in the Smalcald; 9. Conclusion; 10. Bibliography.

Kirsi Stjerna is the First Lutheran, Los Angeles/Southwest California Synod Professor of Lutheran History and Theology at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. She is the author of Lutheran Theology: A Grammar of Faith (2020) and editor of Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Texts, and Contexts (2023).

• Introduction: 1. Freedom questions, religion, and Luther; 2. Luther's journey with religion; 3. Authority and sources; 4. The way of the cross; Part II: 5. God of absolute goodness; 6. The human condition; 7. Justification – Union with Christ; Part III: 8. Religion reformed – Luther's testament in the Smalcald; 9. Conclusion; 10. Bibliography.

Kirsi Stjerna is the First Lutheran, Los Angeles/Southwest California Synod Professor of Lutheran History and Theology at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. She is the author of Lutheran Theology: A Grammar of Faith (2020) and editor of Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Texts, and Contexts (2023).

• Introduction: 1. Freedom questions, religion, and Luther; 2. Luther's journey with religion; 3. Authority and sources; 4. The way of the cross; Part II: 5. God of absolute goodness; 6. The human condition; 7. Justification – Union with Christ; Part III: 8. Religion reformed – Luther's testament in the Smalcald; 9. Conclusion; 10. Bibliography.