Just finished reading “The True Nature of Virtue” by Momany. As a non-Wesleyan, it’s an instructive look at the evolution of Wesleyan Ethics. Staggers me that William Taylor, amongst others, asserted that slavery was some kind of regrettable but acceptable evil.

Where were the Christ-like virtues? The Biblical stance that all people are made in God’s image, and should be treated as such. The fact that no human being is, or should be viewed as, goods and chattels.

At least hope could be found in Asa Mahan’s theology of Christ dying for every person individually and, thus, recognising the intrinsic worth and value of the individual.

@drantbradley I’d love to get you perspective on this thread, and Christian ethics in general. I’m an Aussie, so can’t remotely understand the history of Antebellum America. What can we learn?