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  2. Christian views on slavery - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Christian abolitionism - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the abolition movement faced much opposition. Bertram Wyatt-Brown notes that the appearance of the Christian abolitionist movement "with its religious ideology alarmed newsmen, politicians, and ordinary citizens. They angrily predicted the endangerment of secular democracy, the mongrelization, as it was called, of white ...

  4. Timeline of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (Nisan 14 or 15), the Jerusalem church was founded as the first Christian church with about 120 Jews and Jewish Proselytes , followed by the events of

  5. The Bible and slavery - Wikipedia

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    The Bible says that Jesus healed the ill slave of a centurion [88] and restored the cut off ear of the high priest's slave. [89] In his parables, Jesus referenced slavery: the prodigal son, [90] ten gold coins, [91] unforgiving tenant, [92] and tenant farmers. [93] Jesus also taught that he would give burdened and weary laborers rest. [94]

  6. Slavery and religion - Wikipedia

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    [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.

  7. Catholic Church and slavery - Wikipedia

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    Catholic slavery in what would become the United States began in the Spanish colony of San Miguel de Gualdape, where North America's first slave rebellion occurred. Mission Nombre de Dios came soon after, in what would become Florida , and also involved Catholic African slaves.

  8. Chronology of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The Christian gospels do not claim to provide an exhaustive list of the events in the life of Jesus. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] They were written as theological documents in the context of early Christianity rather than historical chronicles, and their authors showed little interest in an absolute chronology of Jesus or in synchronizing the episodes ...

  9. Role of Christianity in civilization - Wikipedia

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    [219]: 221 The United States would eventually outlaw African slavery in 1865. Clapham Sect were a group of social reformers associated with Clapham in the period from the 1780s to the 1840s. Despite the label "sect", most members remained in the established (and dominant) Church of England, which was highly interwoven with offices of state.