Biblical scholar in Hebrew and Hebrew Bible: special interest in translation textual plurality, (Septuagint, Dead Seas Scrolls, Samaritan Pentateuch, Aleppo Codex, Leningrad Codex); feminist, womanist and post-colonial biblical interpretation; prophets and prophecy in the Ancient Near East and ancient Israel
Episcopal priest, product of the Black Church, author, blogger, preacher, teacher, lecturer, public speaker
I read this post late last night and again today, I’m grateful to have stumbled on your site. It made me feel like I would have a church community if I could find liberation perspectives at the center.
My question concerns the sentence about the history in Great Britain, distinct from the exploitation of slaves in the americas. Im no scholar but what I had been taught about slavery in GB and its demise, had to do with its particular economy, specifically compared to the American South, that in GB, they simply didn’t have an agrarian production at the scale of The South, which was dependent on the exploitation of slaves. For this reason, it more readily died out.
I would like to believe that somehow the religious beliefs in GB society were the prime motivation, but I don’t understand how that could have been so, Could you explain?
Thank you for dropping by. Economic motives can never be discounted. I was referring to a theological development in England that had no corollary in the (dis)United States.
Thanks for taking the time to respond. The least sentence in your sermon really peaked my interest!
I found an essay on the national humanities center webpage by professor Bertram Wyatt-Brown which provides me with some basis for further research. For me, it gives a good primer for the history and theological currents in England and in England’s colonies.
Among the notable details, he mentions the story of American Quaker, Benjamin Lay, whose physical condition seems to have deposed him to do real theology of oppression, and speak with the voice of a prophet by denouncing the evil of slavery, at least within his own congregation, who also happened to be at the vanguard for abolition in the Colonies. For me, who has no particular investment in this tradition or that, Benjamin Lays life is just as inspirational as that of John Newton.
The essay also suggests how the inspired evangelical currents of the era generally rotted on the vine among christian denominations in the society of The South.
I say all these stories need to be raised up– No wonder why the GOP intends to defund the National Humanities Center.
If you have any other particular source material for your own perspective to which you might refer me, I would be most grateful.
Paul R
March 17, 2017 8:08 pmI read this post late last night and again today, I’m grateful to have stumbled on your site. It made me feel like I would have a church community if I could find liberation perspectives at the center.
My question concerns the sentence about the history in Great Britain, distinct from the exploitation of slaves in the americas. Im no scholar but what I had been taught about slavery in GB and its demise, had to do with its particular economy, specifically compared to the American South, that in GB, they simply didn’t have an agrarian production at the scale of The South, which was dependent on the exploitation of slaves. For this reason, it more readily died out.
I would like to believe that somehow the religious beliefs in GB society were the prime motivation, but I don’t understand how that could have been so, Could you explain?
Thanks.
Wil
March 18, 2017 12:31 amThank you for dropping by. Economic motives can never be discounted. I was referring to a theological development in England that had no corollary in the (dis)United States.
Paul R
March 19, 2017 3:32 pmThanks for taking the time to respond. The least sentence in your sermon really peaked my interest!
I found an essay on the national humanities center webpage by professor Bertram Wyatt-Brown which provides me with some basis for further research. For me, it gives a good primer for the history and theological currents in England and in England’s colonies.
Among the notable details, he mentions the story of American Quaker, Benjamin Lay, whose physical condition seems to have deposed him to do real theology of oppression, and speak with the voice of a prophet by denouncing the evil of slavery, at least within his own congregation, who also happened to be at the vanguard for abolition in the Colonies. For me, who has no particular investment in this tradition or that, Benjamin Lays life is just as inspirational as that of John Newton.
The essay also suggests how the inspired evangelical currents of the era generally rotted on the vine among christian denominations in the society of The South.
I say all these stories need to be raised up– No wonder why the GOP intends to defund the National Humanities Center.
If you have any other particular source material for your own perspective to which you might refer me, I would be most grateful.
Paul