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14 | www.limina-graz.eu ers”) is directly linked to a subject that has internalised the market model
and assimilated to it.
Paradoxically, the rhetoric of lived freedom or free spontaneity without
constraints is systematically questioned in current scientific discourses.
The result is a symmetric and antithetical narrative where freedom does
not follow an anthropological requirement but represents the unknowable
end point of causal chains or a variable in a complex mechanism. Funda-
mentally – as already established by the masters of suspicion – freedom is
seen as a myth that needs to be demystified.
Ěź What questions around the term freedom arise from an anthropol-
ogy, law, social and natural sciences perspective in a current con-
text?
Ěź What are the anthropological, social and theological consequences
of this precarious freedom?
̟ How can a “positive liberty” be developed in the age of the imagi-
nary?
This edition of LIMINA investigates these issues starting with the question
of freedom and liberation in the Old and New Testaments. A paradigmatic
experience can be found in the Exodus story. Irmtraud Fischer highlights the
individual and collective liberation from slavery and genocide, which reso-
nates in a way that closely connects and transforms humans, peoples and
God.
Thomas Söding examines freedom in Paul. He points out that Paul’s writing
about freedom of conscience and faith contrasted between theonomy and
autonomy offers a starting point for a discussion based on the belief that
the God of Jesus Christ affirms human freedom. According to Paul, a person
can find their freedom in God if they follow their conscience and follow His
word.
In antiquity, freedom could only be understood and practiced within the
context of a political community, whereas modern freedom emerges as an
individual freedom that increasingly distances itself from socio-political
structures. In her essay, introducing the systematical contributions of this
LIMINA 2:2 | The spectre of freedom | Editorial
A new model of freedom based on the paradigm
of the object – or an illusion?
Limina
Grazer theologische Perspektiven, Volume 2:2
- Title
- Limina
- Subtitle
- Grazer theologische Perspektiven
- Volume
- 2:2
- Editor
- Karl Franzens University Graz
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Size
- 21.4 x 30.1 cm
- Pages
- 267
- Categories
- Zeitschriften LIMINA - Grazer theologische Perspektiven