John Frame's A Theology of Lordship series has been greeted with acclaim, The Doctrine of God receiving an ECPA Gold Medallion Award. This fourth and final volume in the series discusses God's word in modern theology and how God's word comes to us as his controlling power, meaningful authority, and personal presence.
Dr. Frame says that God's speech to man is real-like one person speaking to another. "God speaks so that we can understand him and respond appropriately. Appropriate responses are of many kinds: belief, obedience, affection, repentance, laughter, pain, sadness, and so on. God's speech is often propositional: God's conveying information to us. But it is far more than that. It includes all the features, functions, beauty, and richness of language that we see in human communication, and more. So the concept I wish to defend is broader than the 'propositional revelation' that we argued so ardently forty years ago, though propositional revelation is part of it. My thesis is that God's word, in all its qualities and aspects, is a personal communication from him to us."
Analytical Outline xiii
Foreword xxiii
Preface xxvii
Abbreviations xxxi
Part 1 Orientation
1 The Personal-Word Model 3
2 Lordship and the Word 8
Part 2 God's Word In Modern Theology
3 Modern Views of Revelation 15
4 Revelation and Reason 21
5 Revelation and History 26
6 Revelation and Human Subjectivity 34
7 Revelation and God Himself 40
Part 3 The Nature of God's Word
8 What Is the Word of God" 47
9 God's Word as His Controlling Power 50
10 God's Word as His Meaningful Authority 54
11 God's Word as His Personal Presence 63
Part 4 How The Word Comes to Us
12 The Media of God's Word 71
13 God's Revelation through Events 75
14 God's Revelation through Words: The Divine Voice 82
15 God's Revelation through Words: Prophets and Apostles 87
16 The Permanence of God's Written Word 101
17 God's Written Words in the Old Testament 105
18 Respect for God's Written Words in the Old Testament 112
19 Jesus'View of the Old Testament 118
20 The Apostles' View of the Old Testament 121
21 The New Testament as God's Written Words 129
22 The Canon of Scripture 133
23 The Inspiration of Scripture 140
24 The Content of Scripture 145
25 Scripture's Authority, Its Content, and Its Purpose 163
26 The Inerrancy of Scripture 167
27 The Phenomena of Scripture 177
28 Bible Problems 183
29 The Clarity of Scripture 201
30 The Necessity of Scripture 210
31 The Comprehensiveness of Scripture 216
32 The Sufficiency of Scripture 220
33 The Transmission of Scripture 239
34 Translations and Editions of Scripture 253
35 Teaching and Preaching 258
36 Sacraments 264
37 Theology 272
38 Confessions, Creeds, Traditions 280
39 Human Reception of Scripture 289
40 The Interpretation of Scripture 292
41 Assurance 297
42 Person-Revelation: The Divine Witness 304
43 Human Beings as Revelation 316
44 Writing on the Heart 320
45 Summary and Organizational Reflections 328
46 Epilogue 332
Appendix A Antithesis and the Doctrine of Scripture 335
Appendix B Rationality and Scripture 347
Appendix C Review of Richard Muller, The Study of Theology 371
Appendix D Dooyeweerd and the Word of God 392
Appendix E God and Biblical Language: Transcendence and Immanence 422
Appendix F Scripture Speaks for Itself 440
Appendix G Review of John Wenham, Christ and the Bible 463
Appendix H Review of David Kelsey, The Uses of Scripture in Recent Theology 466
Appendix I Review of The Nature and Extent of Biblical Authority: Christian Reformed Church, Report 44 490
Appendix J Review of Peter Enns, Inspiration and Incarnation 499
Appendix K Review of N. T. Wright, The Last Word 517
Appendix L Review of Andrew McGowan, The Divine Spiration of Scripture 525
Appendix M Review of Norman Geisler, ed., Biblical Errancy 554
Appendix N No Scripture, No Christ 563
Appendix O In Defense of Something Close to Biblicism: Reflections on Sola Scriptura and History in Theological Method 567
Appendix P Traditionalism 601
Appendix Q The Spirit and the Scriptures 615
Bibliography 641
Index of Names 655
Index of Subjects 659
Index of Scripture 672
Overview
John Frame's A Theology of Lordship series has been greeted with acclaim, The Doctrine of God receiving an ECPA Gold Medallion Award. This fourth and final volume in the series discusses God's word in modern theology and how God's word comes to us as his controlling power, meaningful authority, and personal presence.
Dr. Frame says that God's speech to man is real-like one person speaking to another. "God speaks so that we can understand him and respond appropriately. ...