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S4E5: Wrestling with Troubling Texts in the Bible

Slow Theology: Simple Faith for Chaotic Times

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What's Going Through the Mind of a Slave?

Sally Kohn: The idea that Paul ran away is not explicitly stated in the text. She says it actually goes back to interpreters painting this picture of a of a sinful slave who needed jesus. Kohn: Some christians were saying, we don't need philemen in the canon because it doesn't really teach about eschatology or sotereology. So then in steps chrysostom and others,. but has a pretty booming voice to say, No, no, no, it teaches us how to treat slaves properly. And this created a pattern, she argues, of inadvertently justifying slavery.

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