Tag Archives: Abolition

Christianity and the Abolitionist Movement

A quick excerpt from a blog you need to know about, Christ the Tao, speaking on Christianity and slavery: the modern abolitionist movement, led by zealous believers like William Wilberforce, was no fluke. There is, in the genome of Scripture, something that pushes towards liberty, that eventually emerged in a big way. [From Christ the …

October 10, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Worth Reading | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

Wilberforce: Real Christianity, Discipling Our Minds

This entry is part 3 of 14 in the series Basic Discipleship of the Mind

A reference in J.P. Moreland’s modern classic, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul, steered me toward another classic, this one by William Wilberforce: Real Christianity. The link there is to a modern language update published in 2007. I’ve been reading it in ebook form, …

February 7, 2010 – 7:41 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

“Christianity and the Abolitionist Movement”

[Note added December 4, 2009: I see from my logs that this page has been made an assignment from a course hosted at moodle.esourceportal.org. It's a private site, so I cannot see the context from which the assignment was made. I would be grateful if one of you who are visiting from there could tell …

August 12, 2009 – 2:18 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change | Tagged , | Comments (18)

“Slavery, Christianity, and Islam”

Robert Spencer writes of religion and slavery in world history, including: [T]he pressure to end [slavery] moved from Christendom into Islam, not the other way around. There was no Muslim Clarkson, Wilberforce, or Garrison. In fact, when the British government in the nineteenth century adopted the view of Wilberforce and the other abolitionists as its …

February 7, 2008 – 2:24 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, The Faith | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)