Slavery in Early Christianity

Name: Slavery in Early Christianity
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ISBN: 9780195136098

ISBN-10: 0195136098

ISBN-13: 9780195136098

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jennifer A. Glancy

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Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been surprisingly little study of what early Christians thought about the realities of slavery. How did they reconcile slavery with the Gospel teachings of brotherhood and charity? Slaves were considered the sexual property of their owners: what was the status within the Church of enslaved women and young male slaves whowere their owners' sexual playthings? Is there any reason to believe that Christians shied away from the use of corporal punishments so common among ancient slave owners? Jennifer A. Glancy brings a multilayered…

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List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/14/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.30" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Slavery in Early Christianity


Introduction



The Rhetoric of Slavery



Slavery and the Pauline Churches



Corporal Anxiety and Christian Theology



The Figure of the Slave in the Sayings of Jesus



Ecclesiastical Development and Slaveholding Culture


Notes


Bibliography


Index