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Dialogues d'histoire ancienne - Année 1985 - Volume 11 - Numéro 1 - Pages 674-685Augustin d'Hippone témoigne lui-même de la situation de l'esclavage dans les provinces romaines de l'Afrique de son temps. Fruit de la guerre et donc du péché, il note que l'esclavage s'est toutefois intégré dans l'ordo naturalis de la société. Se heurtant à cet état de fait, l'évêque d'Hippone va opérer une transposition sémantique du terme historique de servus, esclave-marchandise, pour aboutir à des formules de sens métaphysique ou allégorique : servus peccati, le pécheur; servus Dei, le serviteur de Dieu. Le problème concret est ainsi sublimé et dilué en une dimension morale et religieuse.
ST AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO'S ATTITUDE TO SLAVERY. Problems caused by the stance of a bishop of the Great Church faced with social reality in Late Antiquity Africa.
St Augustine of Hippo bears witness in person to the state of slavery in the Roman provinces of the Africa of his time. Nevertheless, he notes that slavery, the fruit of war and consequently that of sin, had been integrated into the ordo naturalis of society. Since he disagreed with that attitude, the bishop of Hippo managed to bring about a semantic conversion of the historical term servus, a chattel-slave, so as to obtain new metaphorical or allegorical formulations such as servus peccati, sinner; servus Dei, servant of God. The basic problem which had arisen was thus replaced and diluted in a moral and religious context.
12 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
ST AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO'S ATTITUDE TO SLAVERY. Problems caused by the stance of a bishop of the Great Church faced with social reality in Late Antiquity Africa.
St Augustine of Hippo bears witness in person to the state of slavery in the Roman provinces of the Africa of his time. Nevertheless, he notes that slavery, the fruit of war and consequently that of sin, had been integrated into the ordo naturalis of society. Since he disagreed with that attitude, the bishop of Hippo managed to bring about a semantic conversion of the historical term servus, a chattel-slave, so as to obtain new metaphorical or allegorical formulations such as servus peccati, sinner; servus Dei, servant of God. The basic problem which had arisen was thus replaced and diluted in a moral and religious context.
12 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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01 janvier 1985
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Français