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Slave of Christ: A New Testament Metaphor for Total Devotion to Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

The New Testament finds many ways to depict the relationship of Christians and their Lord. They are his disciples, sons, daughters, and friends. But it is perhaps too little recognized that they are also his slaves. Murray J. Harris sets out to uncover what it means to be a slave of Christ. He begins by assessing the nature of actual slavery in the Greco-Roman world and the New Testament’s...

treatment of slaves, and to the willing loyalty of some slaves to their masters … The mitigation of slavery by philosophical belief and imperial decree probably made little impression on the routine corruption implicit in a elite culture which took the massed subservience of slaves for granted. Now that we have completed our sketch of Jewish, Greek and Roman slavery in the first century AD, let us briefly consider a wider issue. How did ancient slavery differ from modern
Pages 44–45
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