Slavery and Obedience

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This course examines the theological architecture of Christian obedience. It will examine obedience in relation to its historic social couplet—slavery. Slavery, especially in it modernist reformulation from the 14th century forward, framed the problems of Christian obedience with great urgency. The goal of this course will be to formulate a theology of obedience that is attuned to questions of identity, history, and the ongoing realities of global slavery and its social and economic echoes. Such a theology would articulate more deeply what it means to be an obedient church