There is truth in both the positive picture of Protestantism and the negative judgments on Orthodoxy and Catholicism. However, inversely considered, history shows in varying measures the grave faults of Protestantism in this regard and the virtues of the other two. Ambiguity taints the entire history of Christianity insofar as human rights are concerned. Martin Luther began the Reformation by proclaiming a basic paradox. The freedom of the Christian is at the same time a bondage. The freest person is ,in Christ, the servant of all. But Protestants have often been inclined to exalt two kinds of bondage: that to the Christ perceived in one’s neighbor, and that demanded by ecclesiastical and civil powers.