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Theology, Politics, and Radiant Darkness: Michæl Motia on Gregory of Nyssa

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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Gregory of Nissa on Slavery

Gregory of Nissa is said in the literature to be the first person ever on record to come out and say slavery is just wrong. He's coming from a landed gentry family that has massive amounts of slaves. The only way you can have villas and all these kind of estates that function is by having massive slaves, he says. "I for one am not going to be the person to tell the fact to."

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