Pastoral theology can contribute to the discourse on social-political freedom. More specifically, the concepts of care and faith—theologically, existentially, and psychologically understood—provide an innovative and illuminating perspective on the notions of social and political freedoms as well as how they are related. A focus on the dynamics of faith and care vis-à-vis freedom, for instance, also renders a diagnosis of the social-political pathologies of neoliberal capitalism with its atomization of human beings, distortion of accountability, and exploitation of human beings and the earth. To move in this direction, part I of this paper offers a brief overview of some of the salient features of discourses on political freedom in the West, namely, justice, equality, rights, reason, and agency. Noticeably absent is any connection between political freedom and civic care and civic faith. This sets the stage, then, for a discussion on care and faith vis-à-vis social and political freedom, which is developed in part II of this paper. Part II, which will appear in the next issue of this journal, develops a view of freedom relying first on the pre-political space of parent–child interactions and how they relate to the child’s emerging experience of and capacity for social freedom. Once this is developed, I shift to differentiating between social and political freedoms, which allows me to reimagine political freedom in terms of the dynamics of care and faith.

牧区神学可以促进有关社会政治自由的论述。更具体地说，从理论上，存在上和心理上的理解，关怀和信仰的概念为社会和政治自由的概念以及它们之间的关系提供了新颖而富有启发性的观点。例如，着重于信仰和关怀相对于自由的动态，也可以诊断出新自由主义资本主义的社会政治病态，其特征是人的原子化，责任制的扭曲以及对人与人的剥削。地球。为了朝这个方向前进，本文的第一部分简要概述了西方关于政治自由的论述的一些显着特征，即正义，平等，权利，理性和代理。显然，政治自由与公民关怀和公民信仰之间没有任何联系。然后，这为讨论与社会和政治自由有关的照料和信仰奠定了基础，这在本文的第二部分中得到了发展。第二部分将发表在本杂志的下一期，它提出了一种自由观，首先要依靠亲子互动的政治前空间以及它们如何与儿童新兴的社会自由经验和社会自由能力联系起来。一旦发展了这一点，我便转向区分社会自由和政治自由，这使我能够根据照料和信仰的动态来重新构想政治自由。第二部分将发表在本杂志的下一期，它提出了一种自由观，首先要依靠亲子互动的政治前空间以及它们如何与儿童新兴的社会自由经验和社会自由能力联系起来。一旦发展了这一点，我便转向区分社会自由和政治自由，这使我能够根据照料和信仰的动态来重新构想政治自由。第二部分将发表在本杂志的下一期，它提出了一种自由观，首先要依靠亲子互动的政治前空间以及它们如何与儿童新兴的社会自由经验和社会自由能力联系起来。一旦发展了这一点，我便转向区分社会自由和政治自由，这使我能够根据照料和信仰的动态来重新构想政治自由。