Jun 14, 2020 |
Difficult Freedom
| The Rt. Rev. Thomas BreidenthalDifficult Freedom
"To obey God is to find true freedom. [Emmanuel] Lévinas calls this “difficult freedom”, in as much as it is freedom from having to have our own way. Even as we are thus freed to be who God created us to be. Individuals subordinated to and formed for the disciplines of mercy and justice. Can we make this difficult freedom our own? Surely we must try to do so. {…} What does difficult freedom mean for us?"