RT Article
T1 Slave Christologies: Augustine and the Enduring Trouble with the “Form of a Slave” (Phil 2:5-7)
JF Interpretation
VO 75
IS 1
SP 19
OP 32
A1 Elia, Matthew ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
PB Sage Publ.
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1747149470
AB This essay finds in the thought of Augustine of Hippo a key moment in the development of a strand of the Western theological tradition I will call slave Christologies: theological accounts of the person and work of Jesus Christ that, drawing from the Philippians hymn (Phil 2:5–11), symbolically identify his body with the body of the enslaved, and in so doing, weave the order of slaveholding into the texture of Christian thought. I approach the political and theological implications of this tradition under the pressure of a twofold haunting: of the perennial, if hard to specify, interplay between ideas and forms of life, between the symbolic and the social; and of the contingent, specific historical afterlife of racial slavery which provides the conditions for contemporary Christian thought.
K1 Political Theology
K1 Ethics
K1 Race
K1 Tradition
K1 Augustinianism
K1 Augustine
K1 Christology
K1 Slavery
DO 10.1177/0020964320961668