Filled hands, Open hands

Gifts of physical goods were always, Edwards says, part of piety ( The Miscellanies, 833-1152 , 79): “It was a thing established in the visible church of God from the very beginning, that a part of the substance of God’s visible people should be brought as an offering to the Lord. So it . . . . Continue Reading »

China in Biblical History

Jonathan Edwards summarized a widely held opinion when he claimed that Chinese language and civilization perpetuated the language and civilization of the immediate post-diluvian world: “Their language seems not to have been altered in the confusion of Babel. Their learning is reported to have . . . . Continue Reading »