Slave Christologies: Augustine and the Enduring Trouble with the “Form of a Slave” (Phil 2:5-7)
This essay finds in the thought of Augustine of Hippo a key moment in the development of a strand of the Western theological tradition I will call slave Christologies: theological accounts of the person and work of Jesus Christ that, drawing from the Philippians hymn (Phil 2:5–11), symbolically iden...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2021
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| In: |
Interpretation
Year: 2021, Volume: 75, Issue: 1, Pages: 19-32 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Philipperbrief 2,5-11
/ Jesus Christus
/ Christology
/ Slavery
/ Political theology
/ Ethics
/ Race
/ Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430
/ Augustinianism
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBF Christology NCD Political ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Augustine
B Slavery B Ethics B Augustinianism B Christology B Tradition B Race B Political Theology |
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| Summary: | This essay finds in the thought of Augustine of Hippo a key moment in the development of a strand of the Western theological tradition I will call slave Christologies: theological accounts of the person and work of Jesus Christ that, drawing from the Philippians hymn (Phil 2:5–11), symbolically identify his body with the body of the enslaved, and in so doing, weave the order of slaveholding into the texture of Christian thought. I approach the political and theological implications of this tradition under the pressure of a twofold haunting: of the perennial, if hard to specify, interplay between ideas and forms of life, between the symbolic and the social; and of the contingent, specific historical afterlife of racial slavery which provides the conditions for contemporary Christian thought. |
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| ISSN: | 2159-340X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0020964320961668 |