Christian parrhesia as speech model

The Christian practices of evangelism and martyrdom preserved a culturally enforced form of parrhesia (the duty to speak boldly) across Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, which later transformed into rights‑based speech in the Enlightenment. Reintroducing that duty‑oriented frame could change how we debate limits, obligations, and protections in contemporary free‑speech policy. — Framing free speech as a social duty, not only an individual right, would shift public debates over censorship, platform governance, and civic responsibility by offering an alternative moral vocabulary.