RT Article
T1 Freedom in Dependence: Reflections on the Conditions of a Christologically Grounded Anthropology
JF Studies in Christian ethics
VO 39
IS 1
SP 6
OP 21
A1 Hamilton, Nadine 1984-
LA English
YR 2026
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1963008448
AB 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 vicarious representative action in his Ethics as a test case: a Christologically framed ethic that, because it requires judgment and decision, remains vulnerable to subject-centred recoding. Disability theology functions as a hermeneutical correction, relocating freedom within vulnerability, shared agency, and enabling relations. Dogmatically, in the unio hypostatica and communicatio idiomatum, the crucified-and-risen Christ's enduring wounds disclose divine freedom as shared self-commitment. Returning to Bonhoeffer, the article unfolds the imago Dei within an ?ontology of the Name?, proposing a Christologically grounded, relational anthropology. It finally asks whether the difficulty of thinking beyond autonomy reflects a tacit split between anthropology and soteriology, and explores how a Christological reorientation might reconfigure the field.
K1 Christology
K1 Dietrich Bonhoeffer
K1 Freedom
K1 Martin Luther
K1 communicatio idiomatum
K1 Dependence
K1 disability theology
K1 unio hypostatica/hypostatic union
DO 10.1177/09539468251409109