Abstract
Freedom is regarded as one of the great accomplishments of the modern West, but what is meant by freedom and how does this correspond to the Christian proclamation that Christ has set us free, a claim enacted liturgically in baptism and the Eucharist? This essay considers the freedom of a Christian in light of the modern Western apotheosis of freedom as autonomy. Specifically, it considers Isaiah Berlin’s typology of freedom from and freedom for, Orlando Patterson’s account of personal, sovereignal, and civic freedom, as well as the success and failure of modern Western freedom. Against this backdrop, the freedom of a Christian is considered as a species of sovereignal freedom. This leads to consideration of questions of free will and agency, and Christianity’s legacy with regard to slavery. Finally, the relation of freedom, law, and love is considered.
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