In the Beginning Was the Word Language--A God-Centered Approach

Name: In the Beginning Was the Word Language--A God-Centered Approach
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ISBN: 9781433501791

ISBN-10: 1433501791

ISBN-13: 9781433501791

Edition: 2009

Authors: Vern S. Poythress

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With scriptural teaching and broad-ranging application, this follow-up to Redeeming Science builds a Christian theology of language and reforms our thinking about words.

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Crossway
Publication date: 10/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English




The Importance of Language



God's Involvement with Language



Language and the Trinity



God Speaking



God's Creation of Man



God Sustaining Language



Creativity in Language



Exploring Examples of Language



The Rules of Language



God's Rule



Responding to God's Government



From Big to Small: Language in the Context of History



Small Pieces of Language within the Big Pieces



Imaging



World History



The fall into Sin



Redemption through Christ



Peoples, Cultures, and Languages



Principles for Cultural Reconciliation



Good and Bad Kinds of Diversity



Human Action



Discourse



Speaking and Writing



Analysis and Verbal Interpretation



Interpreting the Bible



Genre



Stories



Story telling



The Story of Redemption



Many Mini-redemptions



Counterfeit Stories of Redemption



Modern Reinterpretations of Redemptive Stories



Stories about Jesus



Smaller Packages in Language: Sentences and Words



Sentences in Use: Foundations in Truth



Foundations for Meaning in Trinitarian Inter-personal Action



Subsystems of Language



Words and Their Meanings



From Words to Perspectives



Application



Truth as a Perspective



Living in the Truth


Interaction with Other Approaches to Language



Modernism and Postmodernism



Doubt within Postmodernism



Non-Christian Thinking



Platonic Ideas



The Contribution of Structural Linguistics



Translation Theory



Symbolic Logic and Logical Positivism



The Theory of Speech Acts



Reaching Out to Deconstruction


Supplementary Reflections



Special Cases of Human Speech


Bibliography


General Index


Scripture Index