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Christian views on slavery are varied regionally, historically and spiritually. Slavery in various forms has been a part of the social environment for much of Christianity's history, spanning well over eighteen centuries. Saint Augustine described slavery as being against God's intention and resulting from sin. [1]
He described the enslavement of Indians as an offense against Christianity and nature, however “there would certainly have been one or two [black] slaves from the coast of Guinea in the Vatican in his day”. [147] In 1514 Leo X repeated all the grants of Nicholas V. [77] [148] Pope Paul III in 1535 sentenced King Henry VIII to capture and ...
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 ...
At other times, Christian groups worked against slavery. The seventh-century Saint Eloi used his vast wealth to purchase British and Saxon slaves in groups of 50 to 100 in order to set them free. [82] The Quakers in particular were early leaders of abolitionism, and in keeping with this tradition they denounced slavery at least as early as 1688.
[101] [102] Also in Galatians, Paul writes on the nature of slavery within the kingdom of God. Galatians 3:28 states: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." [103] Similar patterns of speech and understanding about slavery are found in Peter's ...
The Bull had political consequences for the Catholic communities in slaveholding states, especially Maryland.The bishop of Charleston, John England, despite privately abhorring slavery, interpreted In supremo apostolatus in his ecclesiastical province as a condemnation of large-scale slave-trading, as opposed to the individual owning of slaves although it forbade defending the institution of ...
Christian egalitarianism refers to a biblically-based belief that gender, in and of itself, neither privileges nor curtails a believer's gifting or calling to any ministry in the church or home. It does not imply that women and men are identical or undifferentiated, but argues that God designed men and women to complement and benefit one another.
Christian views on slavery; B. The Bible and slavery; Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1518–1865 ... The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in ...