Perspectives on the Word of God
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
This succinct volume consists of three lectures examining the nature, media, and application of God’s word. Frame develops fresh applications of ideas set forth in The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God. In addition, he offers a preview of the central theses to be discussed in two later volumes in his Theology of Lordship series—The Doctrine of the Word of God and The Doctrine of the Christian Life. Those looking for a concise presentation of Frame’s “perspectival” approach will find it here.
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- Contains three lectures on the doctrine of God
- Looks at the interaction between the word of God and ethics
- Discusses the nature, media, and application of God’s word
- Lecture 1: The Nature of the Word of God
- Lecture 2: The Media of the Word of God
- Lecture 3: The Word of God and Christian Ethics
Top Highlights
“In any act of knowledge there are three crucial elements: (1) an object of knowledge, something that is known, (2) a subject of knowledge, the person who knows, and (3) a norm, criterion or standard, by which we justify our claims to knowledge.” (source)
“We may, then, sum up the nature of the Word of God as follows: God’s Word is the self-expression of his Lordship. God’s Word is the expression of his control, authority and presence, God’s self-insinuation into the three ‘perspectives’ of human knowledge. The power of the Word creates our situational perspective; the authority of the Word determines the norms of our knowledge; and the presence of the Word makes God inseparable from our self-knowledge.” (source)
“will say that God reveals himself through events, words and people” (source)
“We can therefore look at any piece of human knowledge in three ways: (1) as a correspondence between idea and object, (2) as a state of warranted cognitive satisfaction in a subject, and (3) as human thinking which accords with God’s laws for thought.” (source)
“Word of God’ in Scripture, therefore, seems to have a broader meaning than ‘Bible.’ It describes the power by which God controls the forces of nature, and in some mysterious way it is also a name of God’s eternal Son.” (source)
John M. Frame (MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary, MPhil, Yale University, DD, Belhaven College) is professor of systematic theology and philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church in America. Previously, he taught at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia (1968–80) and Westminster Theological Seminary in California (1980–2000).