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After tracing this Edwards-to-Hopkins story, what single lesson about theology and social ethics do you most want readers to walk away with?

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How did Hopkins take Edwards’s idea of “disinterested benevolence” and turn it into a argument against slavery and the slave trade?

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Where in Edwards’s own writings do you see the seeds of social concern and activism that Hopkins later ran with?

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For decades scholars claimed Hopkins “betrayed” or diluted Edwards’s theology. Why do you push back against that view?

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You argue that Hopkins was more consistent with Edwards’s ethics than Edwards himself. What does that consistency look like in practice?

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Edwards owned slaves, yet his closest theological heir, Samuel Hopkins, became one of the strongest early abolitionists. How do you explain that surprising outcome?

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Discussion of Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Hopkins, and the Theological Ethics of Social Concern

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Discussion of A Precious Treasure: Jonathan Edwards’s Preaching and Teaching Based on Biblical Knowledge and Puritan Education (Treatises on Jonathan Edwards)


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What first showed you that Edwards deliberately changed his preaching style based on how well his audience knew the Bible?


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