This may look ‘out of the blue’ but Eric Williams was also my friend and I worked with him for a while at ETS in Harrow. He also spoke with me about the Song but being a new Christian I did not understand that much.
Is his work on the Song available either online or printed?
Please advise.
thank you.
Roger Ryan

Owen on Communion with God is wonderful. He does a great job of showing the purpose of the Song and its implications for the redemptive work of God. Thanks for reminding us of it!

His basic Thesis is that the Song is a theology of revival and is about Christ & The Church. I’m not at this moment sure what has become of the original manuscript – I’ll have to check with his wife (now in her late 70s). However, I do have a copy of it. It’s complete with a full Index & full bibliography. Eric believed that a book without an index was a book not meant to be studied. His book has an index for that reason. He was completely self taught – learning about indexing and then writing one.

Eric told me the Doctor was the only person that understood him – he and his wife were members at Westminster Chapel.

Personally I would love to see this work made available via the internet. This would involve a considerable amount of work where interest is hard to gauge.

But anyway, the program reminded me of Eric and sitting at his feet as a young Christian and listening to him talking about the Song.

Very interesting observation. It is interesting that the Bible opens with a bride for Adam and closes with a bride for the second Adam.

Nick,

Spurred on by Edwards’s summary of the history of redemption as God’s gathering a bride for his Son, I was thinking about the image of marriage in the Bible recently. I noticed that the first words recorded from Adam are his singing over his new bride with great joy (Gen. 2:23). Then later in the Bible the prophet Zephaniah speaks of redeemed Israel as the daughter of Jerusalem. The prophet writes, [the Lord] will rejoice over [her’] with gladness; he will quiet [her] by his love; he will exult over [her] with loud singing” (Zeph 3:17b). Just as the first Adam rejoiced over his bride in song, so also the Second Adam.

I posted a link to the Galaxie Journal website at Feeding on Christ (www.feedingonchrist.com). You have to pay for a subscription in order to get this and many other articles. I think it is worth the annual fee. The other option you have is to purchase the Spring 2000 volume of the Westminster Theological Journal.