Title: Freedom in the making of western culture
First published: 1991
Description: Argues that the concept of personal freedom developed as it did only in the Western world because of the role of women, along with slaves and foreigners, as outsiders, but that the Christian concept of spiritual freedom led to the justification of socialhierarchies.
Subjects: Liberty, History, Religious aspects, Slavery, Western Civilization
LC classification: JC585 .P32 1991 vol. 1