Comparative Analysis

In the article of Mather & Royster, in this article author describes about the early Christianity opposed to slavery, despite its falsity, is widespread. It can be found in popular articles and textbooks for secondary education, which may even rank as one of the causes of the persecutions suffered by Christians. Several factors explain the effect of this error, which was common until the late nineteenth century. Probably the most important is the belief that Christianity is incompatible with slavery. As in other matters, we must remember that more than 2,000 years of Christianity, there have been 2,000 years of Christianity. In fact, not Christian countries abolished slavery until the nineteenth century (in Spain, for example, in 1886).

Knowing the coexistence of Christianity and slavery, his initial conviction alleged by the Church also implies postulate that the final acceptance of this fundamental institution of the ancient world to be linked to some process of degeneration of early Christianity, on the other hand, should be noted that idealized. It is not necessary to find a situation or a cause to explain such a change, because, as we shall see, the early church not only condemned slavery, but accepted it without main problems and eventually use it to justify it.

Christianity, when in contact with a preexisting society, criticizes and rejects some aspects seen as incompatible with their faith and its demands, but also adopts, assimilate or leave remaining other practices, customs, values and trends of thought. Some authors believe that the expectation of the imminence of the second return of Christ, so off his importance to the relations in the world that produces an indifference, a gelatinization of the institutions and states of life in this world that soon was to disappear, so Paul can advise everyone to remain. It was when the Lord called him, free or slave, married or single. Paul himself suggests that the Parousia would take.

However, there are important and complex causes. Christianity is primarily a spirit, a new way of seeing reality, God, man and the world that does not directly address the secular structures, but creates the spiritual attitudes, awareness, and attitudes will eventually lead structural change.

The insertion of the Christian demands in a social reality mediates by the understanding that has the man of faith who has accepted himself and society. The ability to break away from entrenched criteria and judgments, consistency and strength secular political and social structures. The criticism which often involves, a long period of acculturation, maturation and reflection that can last centuries. In the social, legal, economic and political perception of the possibility of transformation is much slower and subject to the growth of historical consciousness. The progress of political science, social and historical, the comparative perspective and many other factors variables over the centuries.

In the article of Mather & Royster, the author critically analyze the in ancient times, and throughout the world, the normality and universality of slavery taken as an unchangeable fact, with very few exceptions. One was the Germanic ...