ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an argument for consideration by modern secular thinkers, inviting them into dialogue with Christians on the nature of freedom. Christians will insist that Christian freedom is precisely about a lived exploration of freedom, and of the meaning of freedom. Indeed Western liberal society is historically indebted to Christianity for its own celebration of freedom. However, it is already required by God in the ever new understanding of Christian faith itself: the challenge which Christians present to others to acknowledge and examine their presuppositions is one which Christians know as intrinsic to faith in God who is their freedom. The chapter focuses on Lesslie Newbigin's reflections upon freedom. Newbigin insists that obedience, personal commitment, dogma, authority and canon have an essential part in freedom. To be sure, they can be oppressive; however, the alternative liberal view of freedom is a chimera.
