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“As man develops his pattern of life in relation to the divinity of his God, we must now ask: who is man in the face of the rejected Son of Man who was raised up in the freedom of God? How does he develop his life in the field of force of the passion of the crucified God? ‘Christ is the end of the law,’ declares Paul (Romans 10.4). What does that mean for the liberation of man? […] Anyone who follows Paul in speaking of the freedom of the sons of God in faith in Christ must also seek out and present this freedom in specific psychological and political terms. He cannot restrict himself to making correct theological statements about what it must mean in the theological circle of true faith; he must present his remarks in a specific controversy with general psychological phenomena of religion, particular pathological phenomena and therapeutic attempts at freeing men from psychological compulsions. Otherwise the freedom of faith would be discussed only in the freedom of theological reflection, and not as a new liveliness in the twilight of repressions and obsessions.”