Modern Liberty a Cruel Parody of Christian Freedom
As Easter comes ever closer the importance of the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Christ should be magnified for every Christian. Christians should not forget the underlying message of the Easter story—the freedom won in Christ’s death and resurrection. For this is one of two major competing stories in modernity, and one that modernity would like to silence forever.
The perennial question of “what is liberty” tends to dominate headlines today. Who threatens liberty? How do we increase liberty? Why we should safeguard liberty? And so forth. Americans, especially, like to think of themselves as living in the land of liberty; that special nation destined to teach the world the universal values of freedom and liberty whilst dispelling superstition and oppression.
Liberty comes from the Latin word liber, which means “the free one.” But people often fail to recognize the deeper implication of liberty from its Latin roots. Liber was the Roman god of fertility. Ancient conceptions of liberty among the philosophers move in various directions but one of the main aspects of classical doctrines of liberty is that liberty is associated with the idea of ontological flourishing and fulfillment. Liberty leads to flourishing, which leads to life. This makes sense given the root of the word liberty being associated with the Roman god of fertility.
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