The Liberty of Obedience

by Elisabeth Elliot

  • Year 1968
  • Type Book
  • Genre discipleship
  • Tradition Evangelical
  • Original language English

For For Christians thinking about the relation of obedience and freedom in conduct and service; a short book of reflection, not a treatise on Christian liberty.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

A short reflection on obedience as the way to freedom, drawing on what her years among the Waorani taught her about Christian conduct.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 3 of 5
  • Experiential 4 of 5
  • Sociological 2 of 5
  • Historical 1 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

The Liberty of Obedience: Some Thoughts on Christian Conduct and Service is a short book published by Word Books of Waco, Texas, in 1968. In it Elisabeth Elliot asks readers to examine their own obedience to God and to measure it by their experience of his freedom, grace and love, arguing that obedience is the way to liberty rather than a constraint on it. She draws on the years she spent among the Waorani in Ecuador, where much of what she had assumed about Christian conduct was stripped back to essentials. It was later reprinted by Abingdon and by Servant's Vine Books, and is now available from the Foundation as an audiobook.

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