Edwards’s writings, including his notebooks (from the philosophically oriented ‘Miscellanies’ to the exegetical ‘Notes on Scripture’) and his published treatises (many of which were originally sermons), comprise, according to Kimnach, his ‘sermon mill.’
-Stephen Nichols, An Absolute Sort of Certainty: The Holy Spirit and the Apologetics of Jonathan Edwards, p. 17
I’m not saying I’m Jonathan Edwards – not by a long shot – so don’t go there. But when I read that sentence I thought, ‘Yep, that’s pretty much what my blog is.’ Edwards would have been quite a prolific blogger.
This is a good book by the way. I’ll post a few more quotes from it, Lord willing, in the near future.
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Just think about how effective he would have been as a blogger? Just a thought.
I sometimes wonder whether some of the great Christian thinkers would have spent time blogging and using social media. It’s an interesting question. I can’t imagine CS Lewis writing a blog, but who knows? I can’t imagine Edwards sitting at a computer, but who knows?