New from WTS Professor Vern Poythress: In the Beginning Was the Word: Language, A God-Centered Approach
In the Beginning Was the Word
Language, A God-Centered Approach
By Vern Poythress
Crossway
Paperback - 416 Pages
Purchase In the Beginning Was the Word.
Wayne Grudem writes:
“This insightful book is the product of a lifetime of profound thinking about the amazing complexity of language as created by God to reflect his own character and give him glory. Poythress’s multiple perspectives on language will enable readers to understand the Bible more deeply and also to avoid the mistakes of various non-Christian theories of language”
Kevin Vanhoozer writes:
“This book represents a lifetime of theological thinking about the significance of language: about God’s involvement with language, the nature of language itself from phonemes to literary genres, and the diverse ways humans interact with one another, and with God, through language. Here one finds not only a biblical but a systematic theology of language built on the insight that human language reflects the triune God, sometimes in surprising ways. And Poythress includes significant appendices analyzing language in postmodernism, translation theory, speech acts, decon- struction, and more”
John Frame writes:
“Poythress does not merely claim that the discipline of linguistics allows a place for God, or that a theistic worldview provides useful context, or that engagement in such studies is somehow useful to Christians. Rather, he comes right in your face with the claims of Christ: God is not merely a possibility, not merely a conclusion, but the starting point for any understanding at all. The present book on language shows that the foundation of human speech is the speech between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, so that without God meaningful language would be impossible. This book is essential for anyone who would pursue an understanding of language. It is also a great help to those troubled by contemporary challenges to the very possibility of meaningful communication”
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