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Theodore of Mopsuestia In Commentary on Philemon 2.264.10–14, he comments that some Christian ecclesiastics of his day 'would write with great authority that a slave who joined us in the faith and hastened to the true religion of his own free will should be freed from slavery. For there are many such people today, who want to be seen to be ...
The Bible says that Jesus healed the ill slave of a centurion [87] and restored the cut off ear of the high priest's slave. [88] In his parables, Jesus referenced slavery: the prodigal son, [89] ten gold coins, [90] unforgiving tenant, [91] and tenant farmers. [92] Jesus also taught that he would give burdened and weary laborers rest. [93]
Throughout Europe and the United States, Christians, usually from "un-institutional" Christian faith movements, not directly connected with traditional state churches, or "non-conformist" believers within established churches, were to be found at the forefront of the abolitionist movements. [1] [2]
By the end of the Middle Ages slavery had become rare in Northern Europe, but continued around the Mediterranean, where contact with non-Christian societies was more common. Some Italian maritime states continued the slave trade. The only Christian area where agricultural slaves were economically significant was the south of the Iberian peninsula.
[91] This practice was a major mark of African American Christianity during the slavery period. Christianity came to the slaves of North America more slowly. Many colonial slaveholders feared that baptizing slaves would lead to emancipation because of vague laws that concerned the slave status of Christians under British colonial rule.
The position of the church was to condemn the slavery of Christians, but slavery was regarded as an old established and necessary institution which supplied Europe with the necessary workforce. In the 16th century, African slaves had replaced almost all other ethnicities and religious enslaved groups in Europe. [345]
From the 15th to the 19th century, at least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped, forcibly transported by mostly European merchants and sold into slavery. Proponents of reparations say slavery's ...
Ward, Kevin & Brian Stanley, eds. Church Mission Society & World Christianity. 1799–1999 (1999) Wu, Albert. "Ernst Faber and the Consequences of Failure: A study of a nineteenth-century German missionary in China." Central European History 47.1 (2014): 1–29. Weeraratna, Senaka, ' Repression of Buddhism in Sri Lanka by the Portuguese (1505 ...