April 5, 2010
Yesterday, as I’m sure you’re aware, was Easter Sunday, one of the most important days in the Christian calendar. To mark this event, this week’s Miscellany Mondays entry focuses on resurrection. Here Edwards poses a question asking how Christ’s resurrection affects the bodies of believers and their own eventual resurrection, given the union that is [...]
December 21, 2009
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 [...]
July 6, 2009
This week brings one of Edwards’s earliest entries in the miscellanies project. It is a beautiful contemplation of the benefits a Christian gains in his being united to Christ by faith, a union which purchases all things for the believer. This is an early glimpse into the poetic timbre that many of Edwards’s later writings, [...]