082 - Religious Liberty

It’s often said that the Reformers — and later, the Pilgrims — advocated for religious liberty, which is understood to mean “the freedom to believe whatever you want.” But is this really the kind of freedom they had in mind? In this episode, Mark and Cameron discuss the tensions between the biblical (and classical) understanding of liberty as the freedom to pursue the good versus the later enlightenment idea of liberty as the freedom to pursue whatever you want.