Sin as Slavery and/or Slavery as Sin? On the Relationship between Slavery and Christian Hamartiology in Late Ancient Christianity

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ID20488100
AuthorsChris L De Wet (0000-0002-2628-2013, 1Department of New Testament and Early Christian Studies, University of South Africa P.O. Box 392, UNISA 0003 Republic of South Africa, Email: [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume17
Issue1-2
Pages26-39
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion and Theology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1023-0807 • E-ISSN: 1574-3012
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/157430110x517906
OpenAlexW2074504272
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

This study explores the relationship between slavery and the theological concept of original sin in late ancient Christianity. The link is discussed in terms of three intersections, namely “nature”, or “naturalness” and “unnaturalness”, domination, and kinship. These intersections shed light on the very conceptualization of the sin-as-slavery concept, and show that in many instances late ancient thinking differed considerably from classical conventions. Even though sin was considered as slavery, it took more than a millennium for the church to realize that slavery is sin

Animism · Christianity · Conceptualization · Early Christianity · History of religions · Kinship · Linguistics · Naturalness · Paganism · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classical Antiquity Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies

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