Liberated Messiah with power and prominence (8)
I believe the answer is:
emphasis
'prominence' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'liberated messiah with power' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'power' could be 'p' and 'p' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'messiah' is 'emhasis' which is present in the left over letters.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for emphasis that I've seen before include "Accentutation" , "Stress laid on, eg, words" , "Stress, accentuation" , "Weight" , "Special importance or prominence given to something" .)