The children of God: natural slavery in the thought of Aquinas and Vitoria.(Dominican theologian Francisco de Vitoria)(Abstract) From: Theological Studies | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: Capizzi, Joseph E. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Theological Studies, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

[The author seeks to show the consonance of Thomas Aquinas's and Francisco de Vitoria's views of natural slavery in the context of developments in natural rights theories. Against two views, one of which indicts Aquinas, and the other, Vitoria, for an unchristian perspective on slavery, the article shows that neither Aquinas nor Vitoria had the theological resources to condemn slavery as we should.]

DID THE DOMINICAN theologian Francisco de Vitoria (1486?-1546) betray the best i...

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