CPTJ Archive | Volume 12 – Essays on a Theology of the Word
Title
Jonathan Edwards’s Harmony of the Word of God
Joseph T. Cochran
Abstract
This article focuses on the harmonious nature of the Word of God. It first introduces Edwards’s understanding of the prisca theologia and how his philosophy of history, known as the history of redemption, is the culminative and authoritative understanding of all history. The Word of God records the first two stages of redemption history and harmonizes them as the OT and NT. This article then demonstrates the role typology fulfills in harmonizing the OT and NT, as well as harmonizing the Word of God to the natural world. Next, this article conveys how the Word of God harmonizes to the mind of God and how spiritually enlivened minds comprehend the Word of God’s inner harmony, as well as its harmony to the mind of God. Finally, this article notes how Edwards promoted harmonizing the Word of God to stir people’s affections for God.
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Joey Cochran (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is an Instructor of History at Purdue University Northwest and a regular columnist at The Anxious Bench. He is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Pastor Theologians.
