In the beginning was the word : language : a God-centered approach / Vern Sheridan Poythress.
2009
230.014 P892i 2009
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Title
In the beginning was the word : language : a God-centered approach / Vern Sheridan Poythress.
Author
ISBN
9781433501791 (tpb)
1433501791 (tpb)
1433501791 (tpb)
Imprint
Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, c2009.
Language
English
Description
415 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
230.014 P892i 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)302414487
(OCoLC)302414487
(OCoLC)302414487
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-399) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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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