A Post-Colonial Liberation Reading of The Epistle to Philemon

Reading the text of the Bible is to immerse in history, the history of events, and the history of understanding. When you open the page of normative books you can see the lives and problems of thousands of years ago and the stories that influence the evolution of the church up to this day. At the same time, in the call to Timothy 2: 3, 16, Christians take seriously what they wrote, reflect them in their lives and reality, and in the text of the text applied in their context I led the interpretation. And I understand.

C. Philemon; d. The Filipino Letters After the release of Paul from Roman prisons: Two letters from Timothy, one letter from Titus Bay. II. A letter to the Hebrews: of uncertainty. Paul always keeps in touch with the church he founded, and we think that we should write more letters than we do now. This can also be seen from the letter itself. I am Cor. 5: 9 refers to the letter being lost now, II Cor. This may point to one Corinthians, but there is also 7: 8. Colossians 4: 16 tells us that we can not understand with a letter from Laodicea (ix). These letters are undoubtedly inspired by the letters that we still have, but we can rest assured that the letters God reserved for the Bible classics will not be lost.

Paul's letter to Philemon is an important text for supporters and abolitionists who support slavery. This short letter, allegedly provided by Onesimus' hand, is a slave to the fugitive and Paul sent him back to his master Philemon. Paul asked Philemon to regard Anirem as the beloved brother of Christ. Cardinal Dulles pointed out "Although carefully suggested manipulating Anisimus, he did not state that Philemon is morally obliged to release Anisim and other slaves." He encouraged Philemon to welcome Anishim "as a slave not as a slave but as a loving brother." (According to tradition, Philemon liberated Anishim, and eventually was recognized as a saint by the church.) In discussion, little attention was paid to the situation of Anissim if he did not come back. Support your fugitives and choose to continue to fear discovery and punishment