
In his seminal work, Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton wrote: Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. … The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels towers in this respect, as in every other, above all the thinkers who ever thought themselves tall. … There was something…

“For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory.” (Isa. 66:18) Christians easily recognize this prophecy from Isaiah as a prediction of God’s call to all humanity through Jesus Christ to be part of “the…