DOCTRINE OF THE WORD OF GOD: THEOLOGY OF LORDSHIP

by FRAME JOHN M.

• ISBN13: 9780875522647
• ISBN10: 0875522645
• Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: INGRAM BOOK COMPANY

Summary

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.

Author Biography

John M. Frame (B.D., Westminster Theological Seminary; A.M. and M.Phil., Yale University; D.D., Belhaven College) holds the J. D. Trimble Chair of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando campus. He previously taught theology and apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia) and at Westminster Seminary California.

Table of Contents

Analytical Outline	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xxiii
Preface	p. xxvii
Abbreviations	p. xxxi
Orientation
The Personal-Word Model	p. 3
Lordship and the Word	p. 8
God's Word In Modern Theology
Modern Views of Revelation	p. 15
Revelation and Reason	p. 21
Revelation and History	p. 26
Revelation and Human Subjectivity	p. 34
Revelation and God Himself	p. 40
The Nature of God's Word
What Is the Word of God?	p. 47
God's Word as His Controlling Power	p. 50
God's Word as His Meaningful Authority	p. 54
God's Word as His Personal Presence	p. 63
How The Word Comes to Us
The Media of God's Word	p. 71
God's Revelation through Events	p. 75
God's Revelation through Words: The Divine Voice	p. 82
God's Revelation through Words: Prophets and Apostles	p. 87
The Permanence of God's Written Word	p. 101
God's Written Words in the Old Testament	p. 105
Respect for God's Written Words in the Old Testament	p. 112
Jesus'View of the Old Testament	p. 118
The Apostles' View of the Old Testament	p. 121
The New Testament as God's Written Words	p. 129
The Canon of Scripture	p. 133
The Inspiration of Scripture	p. 140
The Content of Scripture	p. 145
Scripture's Authority, Its Content, and Its Purpose	p. 163
The Inerrancy of Scripture	p. 167
The Phenomena of Scripture	p. 177
Bible Problems	p. 183
The Clarity of Scripture	p. 201
The Necessity of Scripture	p. 210
The Comprehensiveness of Scripture	p. 216
The Sufficiency of Scripture	p. 220
The Transmission of Scripture	p. 239
Translations and Editions of Scripture	p. 253
Teaching and Preaching	p. 258
Sacraments	p. 264
Theology	p. 272
Confessions, Creeds, Traditions	p. 280
Human Reception of Scripture	p. 289
The Interpretation of Scripture	p. 292
Assurance	p. 297
Person-Revelation: The Divine Witness	p. 304
Human Beings as Revelation	p. 316
Writing on the Heart	p. 320
Summary and Organizational Reflections	p. 328
Epilogue	p. 332
Antithesis and the Doctrine of Scripture	p. 335
Rationality and Scripture	p. 347
Review of Richard Muller, The Study of Theology	p. 371
Dooyeweerd and the Word of God	p. 392
God and Biblical Language: Transcendence and Immanence	p. 422
Scripture Speaks for Itself	p. 440
Review of John Wenham, Christ and the Bible	p. 463
Review of David Kelsey, The Uses of Scripture in Recent Theology	p. 466
Review of The Nature and Extent of Biblical Authority: Christian Reformed Church, Report 44	p. 490
Review of Peter Enns, Inspiration and Incarnation	p. 499
Review of N. T. Wright, The Last Word	p. 517
Review of Andrew McGowan, The Divine Spiration of Scripture	p. 525
Review of Norman Geisler, ed., Biblical Errancy	p. 554
No Scripture, No Christ	p. 563
In Defense of Something Close to Biblicism: Reflections on Sola Scriptura and History in Theological Method	p. 567
Traditionalism	p. 601
The Spirit and the Scriptures	p. 615
Bibliography	p. 641
Index of Names	p. 655
Index of Subjects	p. 659
Index of Scripture	p. 672
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