Preaching Bondage: John Chrysostom and the Discourse of Slavery in Early Christianity

• Autores: J. Albert Harrill (res.)
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 3, 2016, págs. 456-458
• Idioma: inglés

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  • Preaching Bondage: John Chrysostom and the Discourse of Slavery in Early Christianity

    Chris L. de Wet

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  • The rest of the book develops these ideas in a close reading of Chrysostom's homilies, with the author's own translations of the texts (the translation of genos as "race" [i.e., "the race of slaves"] appears frequently and may surprise some readers, but it does capture Chrysostom's use of stereotyping to influence his congregations). Critical theories on gender (Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Helen King), on the notion of habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), on the difference between strategy and tactics in everyday practice (Michel de Certeau), and especially on the idea of self-fashioning (Michel Foucault) inform the analysis, although not with uncritical or mechanical application. De Wet thus critiques the standard definition of slavery by Orlando Patterson (Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study) by expanding the idea of "natal alienation" to include its correlated and even more oppressive rhetoric of "natal association" (calling slaves brothers and sisters), a technology of mastery appearing frequently in Chrysostom's homilies (20-21).