Slavery as Salvation: The Metaphor of Slavery in Pauline Christianity by Dale B. Martin

Slavery as Salvation: The Metaphor of Slavery in Pauline Christianity

Dale B. Martin

245 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Early Christians frequently used metaphors about slavery, calling themselves slaves of God and Christ and referring to their leaders as slave representatives of Christ. Most biblical scholars have insisted that this language would have been distas...

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