If we want to understand contemporary American culture wars, we must first come to grips with the culture wars of the nineteenth century. That our nation did not remove slavery in a biblical way helps explain many of our contemporary social evils. But who is qualified to talk about such things? What is a biblical view of racism? Why do the biblical answers to such questions so infuriate the radical left and the radical right? This collection of essays lays out some of the answers from a view unafraid of historic biblical orthodoxy.
“A biblical view of the world makes a distinction between a wicked nation, an axe in the hand of God, and the holiness of the sovereign hand that wields it (Is. 10:5).” (Page 16)
“They do not see that unless Christ is acknowledged as Lord in the public square (but first in the church and home), then every manner of rebellion and disobedience must be tolerated there. Given that Christ is our only possible Savior, how is it that Christians believe that Christ can be banished from our public life, while simultaneously believing that sin and disobedience can be kept out of our public life by some other means, some other savior? How can we reject Christ in this way and not have homosexual marriage?” (Page 20)
“‘Conservatism, without a Christian-historical basis, is the inconsistent wing of liberalism.’” (Page 20)
“All men exhibit the image of God equally, but all cultures are not equal” (Page 33)
“‘Virginia has the honour of being the first Commonwealth on earth to declare against the African slave trade, and to make it a penal offense. Her action antedates by thirty years the much bepraised legislation of the British parliament, and by ten years the earliest movement of Massachusetts on the subject.” (Page 55)
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