Wouldn’t it be cool to perform searches and create comparative visualizations with links and QR codes to exact page locations in large corpora like the Works of Jonathan Edwards Online volumes 1–73, the 38 volumes of the Early Church Fathers, Calvin’s Commentaries, Spurgeon’s 63 volume Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, and many more?
Well, it is cool :) It’s like flying a UFO (not that I have flown one).
Projecting Edwards and other great theologians into 3D and being able to search, annotate, and compare while panning, rotating, and zooming through their thought via mouse or touchscreen is quite exhilarating!
For the past couple of years I have focused on visualizing topics in Edwards’ “Miscellanies,” and that will continue. But in 2024 and beyond I will be adding Edwards’ typology and the writings of other theologians to the mix. A visual comparative theology is the goal. The “Visual Edwards” project continues to grow and significant publications are on the horizon.
Grasshoppers and other insects that are idle and don't lay up food in summer against winter, as the ant and the bee does, but spend the time in singing, are never so brisk a-singing as on the approach of winter or just before they are destroyed by the frost; which represents what is spoken of in Matthew 24:37–39, “But as it was in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” - “Images,” no. 102