"... the truth of freedom is love. It is only in love that human freedom arrives at its truth. I am free and feel myself to be truly free when I am respected and recognised by others and when I for my part respect and recognise them. I become truly free when I open my life for other people and share with them, and when other people open their lives for me and share them with me...In mututal participation in life, individual people become free beyond the limits of their individuality, and discover the common room of living which their freedom offers" (Moltmann, P.216 The Trinity and the Kingdom of God).
Moltmann (with typically complex thought!) describes a path to freedom which rejects the old familiar 'Divide and rule' mentality where even Christian's have sort human lordship in the pursuit of the Kingdom of God. We find true freedom in relationship ... in relationship with the triune God (the trinity being defined by relatedness) brought about by the suffering God on the cross, and in turn we express this true freedom in loving relationship with others which is often expressed through sacrifice, vulnerability and suffering on behalf of others. Faith and Church understood and defined by our understanding (however provisional) of the Trinity.
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