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Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race, and Culture in Philemon (Paul in Critical Contexts)
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Rarely, if at all, has the other central figure, regarding whom and about whom the letter was written—Onesimus—stepped out of the background. He has been mentioned, discussed, referenced; subtly present, but voiceless, powerless, hidden in
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“how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?”
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“To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.”
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“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
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“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.”
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“It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.”
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