The early 1970’s saw the birth of numerous movements fighting under the banner of “liberation.” In the present volume, Hans Urs von Balthasar attempts to bring clarity into the confusion of the time by retrieving what “liberation” and “freedom” mean from a Christian point of view. “God's free revelation of himself in Jesus Christ,” he writes, “is an invitation into the realm of an absolute and divine freedom, in which alone human freedom can be fully realized. Nor is this just an invitation, but through God's becoming man in Jesus Christ, which is an example to all of true fulfillment, there is a breakthrough and entry into the sphere of precisely that kind of freedom which is so feverishly sought after by modern man but which, without the revelation of God, he can never otherwise find”.