%0 Journal Article
%T The cost of cheap freedom and the liberation of discipleship
%A Daniel P. Rhodes
%J Review & Expositor
%@ 2052-9449
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0034637319838631
%X This article argues that the freedom of the market has in turn become a new form of captivity. Describing the freedom associated with market relations, as conceived by F. A. Hayek, as a negative and cheap form of freedom primarily exercised in a freedom from outside interference, I discuss the cost of fully embracing this kind of freedom to the common life of a society and its constituents, identifying its true price in pervasive fragmentation, animosity, and injustice. I will then contrast this view of freedom with the positive freedom of discipleship described as the new way of life (¦Ê¦Ï¦É¦Í¦Ø¦Í¨ª¦Á) koinonia for God¡¯s people in Acts 2. In conclusion, I argue that the liberation of discipleship can ultimately free us from the economic enslavement to which we have become so accustomed
%K Acts 2
%K capitalism
%K captivity
%K F. A. Hayek
%K justice
%K koinonia
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0034637319838631