In the tradition of reformatory theology “freedom” is a leitmotiv for the evolvement of the importance of Christianfaith for salvation. Christoph Herbst studies the understanding of “freedom through faith” in three 19th- and 20th-century protestant classics. The detailed analysis of the concepts laid out by Wilhelm Herrmann, Rudolf Bultmann and Eberhard Jüngel reveals an extensive consensus in the theological controversy:faith frees modern man from the fixation on objectivising rationality and the problematic effects it has on how he deals with himself and the world.