Jakub Urbaniak, Mooketsi Motsisi: The impact of the “fear of God” on the British abolitionist movement

Journal for the History of Modern Theology/Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 26 (2):26-52 (2019)
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Abstract

While there is a general consensus around the role of religion in the abolition of the Slave Trade, historians continue to give little to no detail on exactly how Christian theology influenced the abolitionist movement. This article seeks to interrogate one major theological factor inherent in the spirituality that underpinned the activism of the British abolitionists, namely their notion of Divine Providence, and particularly its moral-emotive correlate: the fear of God’s wrath. These theological notions are discussed based mainly on the analysis of the primary sources and within the theoretical framework of judicial providentialism, aptly captured by John Coffey among others.

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