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Concordia Theological Monthly

Publication Date

6-1-1969

Document Type

Article

Keywords

freedom, religion, christian, peace, political, slave, liberation, psychiatry, stoicism

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

The Western world has understood freedom in two basic ways. For one school of thought freedom is the right and the power to do what one wishes. A man is not free if he is behind bars or in a captive nation or lying crippled in a hospital - no matter what his state of mind. Persons or powers beyond his control dispose his life and dictate orders to him, and to say that he is free is to play fast and loose with the language.

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

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