Christianity has the task of announcing, in word and deed, the beginning of liberation from the countless forms of slavery that dehumanise God's creation. The revelation of God in and through Jesus of Nazareth, crucified but risen, calls us to be all that we were created to be. The person who participates in God's love revealed in and through Jesus Christ becomes what they were created to be: the image of God, just as Jesus is the icon of God. The story of Jesus shows that this will cost nothing less than everything. But God's response to the story of Jesus is just as intense: death and sin have been conquered once and for all [...] the power of destruction remains in our hands; the story of Adam is still with us. But the gift of Christ-like obedience offers the hope of transformation to the world, freeing it from the Law for a fruitful union with Christ (Rom 7:1-6). Life under the Law makes true freedom impossible (Rom 7:7-25), while life in the Holy Spirit makes possible a freedom that comes from God's gracious gift (Rom 8:1-13). INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION, SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE THEOLOGY OF REDEMPTION, 1995, no. 14-15.