Vital Sparks: Worm Theology

[Will Fitzgerald]

Friends, I sent this out yesterday for Ash Wednesday. I would be glad to hear your comments and corrections.

https://vitalsparks.beehiiv.com/p/worm-theology

It's another one of my Watts essays, attempting to answer:

There is no lack of references to worms in the theology and poetry of Isaac Watts. In our book alone, we quote four different poems in eight different songs. There are, I believe, 30 mentions in his Hymns and Spiritual Songs out of (I think) 365 hymns — practically, one mention per every ten hymns. It’s clearly an important image for Watts. What does he mean by it?