In the beginning was the word : language : a God-centered approach / Vern Sheridan Poythress.
Material type: TextPublisher: Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 415 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781433501791
- 1433501791
- 230.01/4 22
- BV4319 .P69 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-399) and indexes.
Language and the Trinity -- God speaking -- God's creation of man -- God sustaining language -- Creativity in language -- Exploring examples of language -- The rules of language -- The rules of language --God's rule -- Responding to God's government -- Small pieces of language within the big pieces -- Imaging -- World history -- The fall into sin -- Redemption through Christ -- Peoples, cultures, and languages -- Principles for cultural reconciliation -- Good and bad kinds of diversity -- Human action -- Speaking and writing -- Analysis and verbal interpretation -- Interpreting the Bible -- Genre -- Storytelling -- The story of redemoption -- Many mini-redemptions -- Counterfeit stories of redemoption -- Modern reinterpretations of redemoptive stories -- Stories about Jesus -- Sentences in use : foundations in truth -- Foundations for meaning in trinitarian inter-personal action -- Subsystems of language -- Words and their meanings -- Truth as perspective -- Living in the truth -- Appendices. A. Modernism and postmodernism -- B. Doubt within postmodernism -- C. Non-Christian thinking -- D. Platonic ideas -- E. The contribution of structural linguistics -- F. Translation theory -- G. Symbolic logic and logical positivism -- H. The theory of speech acts -- I. Reaching out to deconstruction -- J. Special cases of human speech.
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