Freedom in Dependence: Reflections on the Conditions of a Christologically Grounded Anthropology

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's freedom as responsibility and vi...

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Main Author: Hamilton, Nadine 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2026
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2026, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 6-21
Further subjects:B communicatio idiomatum
B Christology
B Dietrich Bonhoeffer
B Martin Luther
B Dependence
B disability theology
B Freedom
B hypostatic union / unio hypostatica
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