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Charles Hodge counts as one of the most influential theologians of the nineteenth century and one of Calvinism’s most ardent defenders in America. He was born in 1797 in Philadelphia to Hugh and Mary Hodge. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) in 1815, and was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1821. In 1822, at the request of Archibald Alexander, he became a...

difference of opinion related to the means by which that end was to be accomplished. The Abolitionists, so called, maintained that all slave-holding, as inconsistent with the inalienable rights of man and with the law of love, is sinful; and, therefore, that immediate and universal emancipation was an imperative duty. Another necessary consequence of the assumption that ‘slave-holding is a heinous crime against God and man,’ is that no slave-holder could properly be admitted to Christian fellowship.
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