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Dad, will we have Chinese food in heaven?” That was the earnest and innocent question I received from my nine-year-old daughter as we were enjoying a culinary delight from the Far East. I quickly replied “Yes.” Why would a father go out on a tenuous limb and disappoint a child? But I knew she was not asking an easy question. She had asked a deeply profound and wide-ranging question involving nearly every loci of systematic theology. This can be illustrated by rephrasing it: “Dad, is this human cultural artifact known as ‘Chinese’ food, crafted with human ingenuity from the raw materials of God’s original creation, going to survive the eschatological cataclysm of the Last Day and exist and be enjoyed in the New Heavens and the New Earth?” That way of putting it, as it happens, is far more controversial.

Further considering the question, I recalled a vested interest of my own: a letter in my email inbox from the late Professor John Webster, regarding a conversation we had had about another scholar. He poignantly signed off with this promissory note: “The celestial Bavinck club will include us all, I trust, with me in charge of paradisial gin and tonics (always that first sip, never a hangover).” I confess wishing to share his trust that paradisial gin and tonics are real, and t

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