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Introduction

Some people might want to raise the question

of why I have chosen to write on slavery as much as I have.

The reason is actually a pretty simple one.

I wrote the other day about the fundamental authority of scripture and the issue of slavery gives us a wonderful opportunity to see just

how committed to scripture we actually are. Unfortunately, in too many cases, the answer comes

back not very.

Heroes and Monuments

We live in a toppling time, as the corrosion of critical theory

has made its way through our history texts in city parks,

the demands for removing so-called hurtful images and reminders have grown increasingly urgent.

Whether we are talking about Columbus or Robert E. Lee or some other

miscreant, the snowflakes have done a good job organizing their blizzard. As the

expression goes, you should visit the Washington Monument while you still can.

And of course, given that this is the monument that has seized the unbelievers,

and given that great evangelical principle of monkey see, monkey do,

the cries to revisit our heroes have also gone aloft in Christian circles.

Whenever the zeitgeist gets it going, you can count on evangelicals to show up with their relevance kites.

And so it is that the issue has now come to the legacy of Jonathan Edwards.

He was a monumental theologian, a revivalist, a foundational figure

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