Early Christian ideology accepted slavery as the norm; it used physical slavery as a metaphor for the slavery of the soul so that everyone could understand and relate to it. This in-depth and academic study of the definition and function of slavery across the early Christian Mediterranean draws on literary, documentary and theological sources.
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Early Christian ideology accepted slavery as the norm; it used physical slavery as a metaphor for the slavery of the soul so that everyone could understand and relate to it. This in-depth and academic study of the definition and function of slavery across the early Christian Mediterranean draws on literary, documentary and theological sources.
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Glancy, Jennifer A., Fortress Press, 2006, c2002, 1st Fortress (paperback) Edition, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), PO's small name o/w fine, 203 pp with notes, bibliography & index, tall 8vo, ISBN: 9780800637897, 'The first full study of early Christian ideology and the practice of slavery, now in paperback (originally published by Oxford University Press in 2002). Examines early Christian slavery in its broad cultural setting; argues that modern scholars have failed to consider the impact of slavery on institutional structures, ideologies and practices of the early churches; focuses on the bodily experience of subjection and violation' Sociology; Early Christianity; Religious Studies.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0195136098. DJ in mylar; 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 who were 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 approach to these and many other issues, offering a comprehensive re-examination of the evidence pertaining to slavery in early Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Glancy situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural setting. She argues that scholars have consistently underestimated t.
