Author: Martin, dale B.
Title: Slavery as salvation. The Metaphor of Slavery in Pauline Christianity.
Description: New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1990. hardcover with dustjacket, XXIII, 245 pp.. (the author examines the issue of the metaphor of Christians as slaves of God in the Gospel of Paul; he shows how in the Roman Empire slavery sometimes functioned as a means of upward social mobility and as a form of status-by-association for those slaves who were agents of members of the upper-class. Slavery to Christ brought the Christian converts a degree of symbolic status and lent the Christian leader a certain kind of derived authority.) ISBN: 0300047355

Keywords: slavery, religion, Christianity, Roman Empire, social mobility, slaves, servants, Gospel, Paul, slavernij, Christendom, Romeinse rijk, status, mobiliteit 0300047355


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