Abstract / DOI
Freedom by Transcendence. Religious freedom is usually derived as an appendix from fundamental human freedom and dignity, as in the Convention on Human Rights. But isn't the relationship just the other way around? In the following, religious freedom is philosophically anchored (Agamben, Stein, Levinas) in the anthropological openness for the sacred. It is shown as freedom for transcendence: in the phenomenon of human existence itself. Religious freedom is not a consequence of general freedom, but the root of freedom. This is at least true for the Jewish and Christian revelation as a freedom event, anchored in the liberation by God.