At the end of his life, the American theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703–58) was working on a massive summa that would show the beauty of the Triune God afresh. Edwards’s thesis was that the best way to see God’s beauty is to trace the history of how he redeemed humanity—from just after the Fall through the Old and New Testament and Church history until the new Jerusalem. He was convinced that because God is a God of history, revealing himself not in one blinding flash but over time, history must be the best way to see God and his attributes.
Edwards died, aged just fifty-four, before he could finish what he started in his 1739 sermon series, A History of Redemption. So, in a new book—my eighth on Edwards—I have tried to complete the story.
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