Spectator of Shadows: The Human Being in Jonathan Edwards's Images of Divine Things
Jonathan Edwards's world was a divine composition. Walking through grass, riding on horseback, looking at faces in the pews: he marveled at God's authorship. I believe that the whole universe, heaven and earth, air and seas, and the divine constitution and history of the holy Scriptures,...
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the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale Universiry
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| Summary: | Jonathan Edwards's world was a divine composition. Walking through grass, riding on horseback, looking at faces in the pews: he marveled at God's authorship. I believe that the whole universe, heaven and earth, air and seas, and the divine constitution and history of the holy Scriptures, be full of images of divine things, as full as a language is of words
that there is room for persons to be learning more and more of this language.[1] Edwards cataloged the language of God throughout his life. Images of Divine Things is composed of two-hundred-and-twelve notes, Edwards's observations of God's communication through creation. He believed God's choice mode of speaking via nature was typology. Traditionally, types were defined as figures, events, and symbols in the Old Testament that foreshadowed future fulfillment in the New Testament. For Edwards, typology became something different, something more living and present. To him, types were also earthly shadows or images of higher, divine realities. One could learn truths about Christ by observing the sun, a tree, or even a silkworm, each of these lowly images revealing glimpses of the divine. If one hopes to learn about this proposed language of God, the place to start is learning the typological language of Jonathan Edwards.[1] Jonathan Edwards, "Types" in The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume 11, Typological Writings, ed. Wallace E. Anderson, Mason I. Lowance Jr., with David H. Watters (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), 152 (hereafter, WJE). |
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| ISSN: | 2159-6875 |
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