God, Slavery, and Early Christianity Bonar Hardback Cambridge University Press
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity\n\nDivine Possession and Ethics in the Shepherd of Hermas\n\nEarly Christians understood themselves to be enslaved to God, which affected their ethics, theology, and self-understanding.\n\nChance E. Bonar (Author)\n\n9781009610629, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 9 October 2025\n\n320 pages\n23.5 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.65 kg\n\n'In God, Slavery, and Early Christianity, Bonar reveals the Bible that could have been\u2014if a popular early Christian text had been included. In the process, he uncovers the context of ancient Mediterranean slavery within which both the Shepherd of Hermas and the New Testament was written. Ancient enslavement, Bonar deduces, heavily influenced early Christian understandings of their relationship to God, faith, and subservience to a much higher degree than previously known. God, Slavery, and Early Christianity rehabilitates an ancient text often maligned in the modern era, to show how we might better understan.
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