With just a few days left until Christmas, it’s always good to take time to remember the true meaning of the holiday. In this week’s installment of Miscellany Mondays, we have a brief, yet profound, statement on the meaning and purpose of the incarnation of Christ. The idea of Christ’s communion with his church, and the church’s resulting communion with the Triune God is a major theme in Edwards’s work, and one certainly worthy of deeper study.

121. INCARNATION.

Christ took the nature of a creature, not only because the creature’s great love to him desired familiar communion with him, more familiar than his infinite distance would allow, but also because his great love to us caused him to desire familiar communion with us. So he came down to us, and united himself to our nature.

Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume 13, The “Miscellanies:” Entry Nos. a–z, aa–zz, 1–500, ed. Thomas A. Schafer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), 285.

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