Browse Worthy: Tim Challies' Visual Theology

Little by little over the past few years, Tim Challies, with the assistance of a graphic artist, has been building an impressive array of visually sharp diagrams, charts, and displays of Biblical truth. Called Visual Theology, these products range from quotes by famous Christians to lists of the Kings of Israel to a blueprint for the Old Testament tabernacle. These graphics are great for teaching or placing on a wall to remind others of God's truth. They are available for downloads and he also has a book he published last year with many of them in it.

Tim caught my attention recently with a new one called The Order and Causes of Salvation and Damnation: An Infographic. As you can see below, It is a beautiful reproduction (the chart is offered in much higher resolution in different formats at the website) of John Bunyan's original "ocular catechism" that traces the decrees of election and reprobation out in believers and unbelievers' lives with Bunyan's typical rich use of Scripture. I first learned of Bunyan's drawing a few years ago while sitting under Derek Thomas, who led us through this work in an approach similar to the one found here. (I also learned that William Perkins had a similar one.) Interestingly, I realized that an old copy of Bunyan's work had been hanging up in the seminary where I teach all along, but it took learning about it before it caught my attention.

Getting a copy and walking through this for your own meditation or as a way of teaching others would not only be a sobering reflection on God's plan of salvation, but good preparation for understanding the theology behind Pilgrim's Progress.