DOCTRINE OF THE WORD OF GOD: THEOLOGY OF LORDSHIP
by FRAME JOHN M.Format: Hardcover
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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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