Sentences with phrase «slave system»

Rather, it needed patient reflection on the entirety of the Scriptures; it required expert knowledge of historical circumstances of ancient Near Eastern and Roman slave systems as well as of the actually existing conditions in the slave states; and it demanded that sophisticated interpretative practice replace a commonsensically literal approach to the sacred text.»

This shows the depth of the social evil produced by the slave system — it could not be eradicated by war, sermon, or prayer.

Ransom and Redemption describes the process by which we have been saved within the context of the slave system so prevalent for so long in most societies.

Evidently the conscience of the Hebrews was struggling with the cruel details of their slave system, but the institution itself was taken for granted as an integral part of their society.

Throughout the whole period of classical civilization the foundations of social order could scarcely sustain the weight upon them — the wars between states, the surrounding barbarians, the political convulsions, the evils of the slave system.

Step by step the evangelical churchmen in parliament had forced the retreat of the slave system.

This, they argued, the slave system guarantees.

Just as at Lane, Weld used the technique of protracted meetings, in which he quietly and earnestly showed the evils of the slave system.

By 1828 a number of presses were pouring out literature condemning the slave system.

This collection of haunting poems, using multiple voices, illuminates the daily terror and hypocrisy of the slave system.

But I wonder if writers are not on the verge of simply exchanging one slave system (old school conventional publishing) for the new school of digital publishing.