Slavery and Christianity : Paul's Letter to Philemon / [print]
John W. Robbins.
- Unicoi, Tennessee: Trinity Foundation, (c)2007.
- 67 pages ; 22 cm.
Introduction -- Impediments to preaching the Gospel -- Paul's signature and salutation -- Race and Christianity -- A prisoner of Christ Jesus -- Fellow workers for the Gospel -- Prayer and praise for Philemon -- The appeal to Philemon -- State and church -- Paul the old man -- Onesimus the fugitive slave -- The importance of consent -- The plan of God -- Do even more than I say -- The superstition of royalty -- Substitution and imputation -- Farewell -- Scripture index -- Index -- The crisis of our time -- Intellectual ammunition.
Paul's letter to Philemon is a masterpiece of divinely inspired political philosophy. It provides the basis for the non-violent abolition of the slavery wherever the Gospel of Jesus Christ is preached and believed.
9781891777172
Bible.--Philemon--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Slavery--Biblical teaching. Slavery and the church.