The Deutero-Pauline and Petrine haustafeln : early Christian oikonomia, pastoral governmentality and slave-management

dc.contributor.authorDe Wet, Chris Len
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-08T07:57:58Z
dc.date.available2013-07-08T07:57:58Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionThis study is based, in part, on my doctoral thesis entitled: ‘Slavery in John Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Pauline Epistles and Hebrews: A Cultural-Historical Analysis’, done under supervision of Prof. Hendrik F. Stander, Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2012.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study traces the discursive links between early Christian oikonomia, pastoral governmentality and slave-management in the Deutero-Pauline and Petrine haustafeln. It especially utilises the concepts of discipline, surveillance and governmentality as extrapolated by Michel Foucault. The Colossian and Ephesian household codes are approached as social contracts, in which certain liberties are given up for the sake of identity and group cohesion. Slaves should render obedience to masters. From this, the codes exhibit a strict hierarchical system, one that is authorised by a potent Christic panopticism. From the Pastoral Epistles the development of Christian pastoral governmentality, or pastoralism, is clearly seen, and with this, a culture of psychagogy related to slave-management. Slaves become the objects of normalization, which assumes a general delinquency of slaves. Finally, the unique stance of the Petrine codes admonishes slaves to embrace unjust suffering as a Christomorphic process; this promotion of suffering as slaves of God would pervade the very essence of Christian virtue discourse.en_US
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dc.description.urihttp://staging.uj.ac.za/greek/EkklesiastikosPharos/tabid/5731/Default.aspxen_US
dc.description.urihttp://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06152013-144852/en_US
dc.identifier.citationDe Wet, CL 2012, 'The Deutero-Pauline and Petrine haustafeln : early Christian oikonomia, pastoral governmentality and slave-management', Ekklesiastikos Pharos, vol. 94, pp. 397-415.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1018-9556
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/21869
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Afro-Hellenic Studiesen_US
dc.rightsInsitute for Afro-Hellenic Studiesen_US
dc.subjectChristian oikonomiaen_US
dc.subjectPastoral governmentalityen_US
dc.subjectSlave-managementen_US
dc.subjectDeutero-Pauline and Petrine haustafelnen_US
dc.titleThe Deutero-Pauline and Petrine haustafeln : early Christian oikonomia, pastoral governmentality and slave-managementen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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