Mere Liberty

Interviewer | Cody Cook, Cantus Firmus

My name is Cody Cook. Apart from my work here, I’ve written articles for Reason, Rethinking Hell, The Stream, The Mises Institute, FEE, GodArchy, The Libertarian Institute, and The Libertarian Christian Institute, where I’m a regular contributor. I’m a theology graduate student living in Cincinnati who loves talking about religion, philosophy, history, and theology. It is my goal with Cantus Firmus to make a thoughtful, persuasive, and comprehensive case for the Christian faith; and to reflect on how to live that faith out. As such, Cantus Firmus provides books, audio, video, and articles that promote Christ as the central melody which gives all other melodies–from philosophy to politics to the arts–their definition.

The name Cantus Firmus comes from a letter written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer while he was in prison:
“What I mean is that God wants us to love him eternally with our whole hearts – not in such a way as to injure or weaken our earthly love, but to provide a kind of cantus firmus to which the other melodies of life provide the counterpoint… Where the cantus firmus is clear and plain, the counterpoint can be developed to its limits. The two are ‘undivided and yet distinct’, in the words of the Chalcedonian Definition, like Christ in his divine and human natures.”

I’m also a husband and a father who loves my family, classic film, funk music, and world cuisine.