Between Apologetics, Emancipation and Imperial Paternalism: Mapping a Proto-liberation Theology behind the British Abolitionist Movement?
Scholarship on the abolition of the slave trade and slavery has given little attention to specifically theological factors behind the movement. This article seeks to interrogate three themes that underpinned the activism of the British abolitionists, namely, deliverance/liberty, love of neighbor, an...
| Published in: | Journal of reformed theology |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Journal of reformed theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 14, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 100-127 |
| RelBib Classification: | FD Contextual theology KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
British abolitionist movement
B Liberation Theology B Imago Dei B Deliverance B love of neighbor B Liberty |
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| Summary: | Scholarship on the abolition of the slave trade and slavery has given little attention to specifically theological factors behind the movement. This article seeks to interrogate three themes that underpinned the activism of the British abolitionists, namely, deliverance/liberty, love of neighbor, and imago Dei. These are examined, first, within their own biblical-theological frame of reference and, second, in relation to other intellectual currents of the era as well as, anachronistically, in the light of some key features of liberation theology. The article considers whether the British abolitionists, whose rhetoric oscillated around apologetics and emancipation and was marked by imperial paternalism, developed a form of proto-liberation theology. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-7312 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of reformed theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10001 |