The Bible, Slavery and Onesimus
Tutor, London Institute for Contemporary ChristianityBrings recent debate about slavery in the New Testament to a close reading of Paul's letter to Philemon.
Edition contents
Volume 24 Number 2 (2007)
A special issue on slavery and emancipation, guest edited by David Killingray
In this edition. Each entry below names the writer, their stated role at the time of publication, and a short description of the piece. Full texts are held in the printed journal.
Evangelicals, Slavery and the Slave Trade: From Whitefield to Wilberforce
Reader in Early Modern History, University of LeicesterShows how evangelicals first accommodated the slave trade and then came to lead the campaign against it.
Britain, The Slave Trade and Slavery: An African Hermeneutic, 1787
Professor Emeritus of History, Goldsmiths College, University of LondonExamines how Quobna Ottobah Cugoano read the Bible against the slave trade in his 1787 book.
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