Is the title of this chapter in The Politics of Jesus.
Yoder highlights that the key point about the 'haustafeln' (house tables - ethical guides of early church in Col, Eph and 1 Pet) is not that they borrow from Hellenistic stoicism (which they don't) but that
"the subordinate person in the social order is addressed as a moral agent". The radical thing about the early church ethic is that it speaks directly to the slaves and women and gives "personal moral responsibility to those who had no legal or moral status."
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