Language As a Tool of Theology
John Frame is someone from whom I’ve learned a great deal, and the learning continues. I found his chapter on language in his Doctrine of the Knowledge of God to be so helpful that I wanted to share the material with you. Frame begins the little section I’ll excerpt by noting something that may sound jarring at first: “Although evangelicals have always insisted that Scripture is true, they have generally agreed that Scripture is not necessarily, never completely, precise. Human language may be...
“Decker,” Etymologically Speaking, Means “One Who ‘Decks’ Linguistic Errors in Exegesis”
Rod Decker nails it in this brief paper he delivered at the recent Bible Faculty Leadership Summit, a get-together of professors from Fundamentalist Protestant schools. Decker knows whereof he speaks, having published a work on linguistics (pictured) in Carson’s Studies in Biblical Greek series. His comments in the article are all worth reading, but perhaps especially these: Unfortunately, much conservative theology of the past century focused on word studies, probably due to a truncated...
Spiritual Health
Why ever disagree with anyone—much less battle him or her—over theology? Does it really matter so much whether or not people believe in God’s sovereignty as long as they’re saved? Do they really have to understand and uphold the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity? Is it all that important for them to believe in and understand inerrancy, progressive sanctification, and the host of other things Christians are unceasingly busy discussing and teaching and even fighting over? Yes. Good theology is...
Βλογάπη Readership Prize Drawing
I have two mildly awesome prizes to give away. Do you want them? All you have to do is follow my rules and fill in a form. There will be five winners, including one grand-prize champion. Winners will be selected at random. Prizes! Prizes! Prizes! A copy of the Bible with special verseless typography that I have touted before (goes to grand-prize winner only.) The massive collection of articles divided into topic folders which I told you about in the previous post (goes to all five winners)....
WardMarkTechTipBlogPost
An acquaintance recently wrote me: I took your seminar a few years ago on electronic filling and it has helped immensely. I've even moved to a different seminary, and it is still an effective system. In a summer course the other day, a fellow student bemoaned not being able to find a document. He asked if I ever had that problem and I had to say no. That little e-mail reminded me that there’s one tip I don’t think I’ve ever shared on my blog before. It’s pretty simple: name every file you save...