Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

At the time of the Reformation, it was not unusual for scholars to adopt a Greek form of their name for themselves, or what we today would call a pen name. Luther did this. For the name he chose for himself was: Eleutherius -- the free one. Now, if you were to ask folks to summarize what the Reformation was all about in one word, you might get answers like sola, or indulgences. Non-Lutherans might say heretic, rebel, or schismatic. But it is Luther himself who tells us what that one word really is, what the Reformation was all about: freedom.