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No Father or Doctor of the Church was an unqualified abolitionist. No pope or council ever made a sweeping condemnation of slavery as such. Church leaders sought to alleviate the evils of slavery and repeatedly denounced the mass enslavement of conquered populations and the slave trade, thereby undermining slavery at its sources. [32]
Historically, slavery was not just an Israelite phenomenon, as slavery was practiced in other ancient societies, such as Egypt, Babylonia, Greece and Rome. Slavery was an integral part of ancient commerce, taxation, and temple religion. [7] In the book of Genesis, Noah condemns Canaan (son of Ham) to perpetual servitude: "Cursed be Canaan! The ...
Abolitionist writings, such as "A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument" (1845) by George Bourne, [23] and "God Against Slavery" (1857) by George B. Cheever, [24] used the Bible, logic and reason extensively in contending against the institution of slavery, and in particular the chattel form of it as seen in the South. In Cheever's speech ...
The AMA (American Missionary Association) was one of the organizations responsible for pushing slavery onto the national political agenda. [citation needed] The organization started the American Missionary magazine, published from 1846 through 1934. [2] Among the AMA's achievements was the founding of anti-slavery churches.
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His father was a tradesman, Thomas Knibb, and his mother, Mary (née Dexter) was active in the local independent church. His parents had eight children, the eldest, also named Thomas being born on 11 October 1799. William was their fifth child, along with his sister, Ann. [2] Knibb's elder brother Thomas was a missionary-schoolmaster in Jamaica.
He then goes on a long theological explanation, explaining how slavery is not natural but due to original sin, how Jesus came to free slaves and mankind from slavery, how the Twelve Apostles taught that all men are equal before God, how the Church Fathers and the Catholic Church have always been opposed to slavery, how non-Christian masters are ...
In the Catholic Church tradition, Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296 or 298 – 373), Basil of Caesarea (c. 330 – 379), Gregory of Nazianzus (329 – c. 390), and John Chrysostom (347–407) are four Greek Church Fathers each who are called the "Great Church Fathers", and in the Eastern Orthodox Church, three of these (Basil of Caesarea ...