sovereignty of God. The ancient Greeks spoke of the summum bonum, or the highest good. By this they meant that, while there are indeed many good things for which one can live, something stands out as the best, or the highest, of those good things. For Edwards, broadly speaking, the first question of the Westminster Catechism captures the answer perfectly. The highest good that anyone can do—or to use the catechism’s language, our chief end—is “to glorify God and enjoy him forever.” Many of Edwards’