Freedom in Dependence: Reflections on the Conditions of a Christologically Grounded Anthropology
Published online on February 26, 2026
Abstract
Studies in Christian Ethics, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 6-21, February 2026.
This article reconceives Christian freedom as dependence. It diagnoses how modern Protestant semantics, despite relational rhetoric, tend to default to the autonomous subject. It retrieves Luther's paradox ‘lord of all/servant of all’ and reads Bonhoeffer'...
This article reconceives Christian freedom as dependence. It diagnoses how modern Protestant semantics, despite relational rhetoric, tend to default to the autonomous subject. It retrieves Luther's paradox ‘lord of all/servant of all’ and reads Bonhoeffer'...