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Social justice and the legitimacy of slavery : the role of philosophical asceticism from ancient Judaism to late antiquity / Ilaria L.E. Ramelli.
Author
Ramelli, Ilaria, 1973-
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
©2016
Description
xvi, 293 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HT910 .R36 2016
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Slavery and the church
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History
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To 1500
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Slavery and Judaism
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History
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To 1500
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Series
Oxford early Christian studies
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Summary note
"Were slavery and social injustice leading to dire poverty in antiquity and late antiquity only regarded as normal, "natural" (Aristotle), or at best something morally "indifferent" (the Stoics), or, in the Christian milieu, a sad but inevitable consequence of the Fall, or even an expression of God's unquestionable will? Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery shows that there were also definitive condemnations of slavery and social injustice as iniquitous and even impious, and that these came especially from ascetics, both in Judaism and in Christianity, and occasionally also in Greco-Roman ("pagan") philosophy. Ilaria L.E. Ramelli argues that this depends on a link not only between asceticism and renunciation, but also between asceticism and justice, at least in ancient and late antique philosophical asceticism. Ramelli provides a careful investigation through all of Ancient Philosophy (not only Aristotle and the Stoics, but also the Sophists, Socrates, Plato, the Neoplatonists, and much more), Ancient to Rabbinic Judaism, Hellenistic Jewish ascetic groups such as the Essenes and the Therapeutae, all of the New Testament, with special focus on Paul and Jesus, and Greek, Latin, and Syriac Patristic, from Clement and Origen to the Cappadocians, from John Chrysostom to Theodoret to Byzantine monastics, from Ambrose to Augustine, from Bardaisan to Aphrahat, without neglecting the Christianized Sentences of Sextus. In particular, Ramelli considers Gregory of Nyssa and the interrelation between theory and practice in all of these ancient and patristic philosophers, as well as to the parallels that emerge in their arguments against slavery and against social injustice."-- publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-288) and index.
Contents
Introduction: the question at stake, methodological guidelines, and contribution to research
The background of Greek philosophy and ancient Judaism: asceticism, slavery, and socio-economic injustice
The New Testament, Jesus and the enigma of Paul: scriptural background for patristic positions
Patristic thinkers' positions toward slavery, social justice, and asceticism
Patristic contrasts: Augustine and Theodoret, Basil and John Chrysostom
Gregory Nyssen: theological arguments against the institution of slavery
Gregory Nyssen's family and origen: rejection of slavery and social injustice
Nazianzen and other late antique ascetics: asceticism and renunciation of wealth and slave ownership.
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Role of philosophical asceticism from ancient Judaism to late antiquity
ISBN
9780198777274 ((hardcover))
0198777272 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016939596
OCLC
965737163
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