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In the Beginning Was the Word : Language - A God-Centered Approach

by: Poythress, Vern S.

In the Beginning Was the Word : Language - A God-Centered Approach

by: Poythress, Vern S.

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9781433501791
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1433501791
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/27/2009
Publisher: Good News Pub

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Summary

With scriptural teaching and broad-ranging application, this follow-up to Redeeming Science builds a Christian theology of language and reforms our thinking about words.

The Importance of Language	p. 11
God's Involvement with Language
Language and the Trinity	p. 17
God Speaking	p. 23
God's Creation of Man	p. 29
God Sustaining Language	p. 39
Creativity in Language	p. 42
Exploring Examples of Language	p. 50
The Rules of Language	p. 60
God's Rule	p. 64
Responding to God's Government	p. 78
From Big to Small: Language in the Context of History
Small Pieces of Language within the Big Pieces	p. 85
Imaging	p. 91
World History	p. 97
The fall into Sin	p. 103
Redemption through Christ	p. 116
Peoples, Cultures, and Languages	p. 124
Principles for Cultural Reconciliation	p. 131
Good and Bad Kinds of Diversity	p. 138
Human Action	p. 149
Discourse
Speaking and Writing	p. 163
Analysis and Verbal Interpretation	p. 170
Interpreting the Bible	p. 180
Genre	p. 186
Stories
Story telling	p. 195
The Story of Redemption	p. 206
Many Mini-redemptions	p. 209
Counterfeit Stories of Redemption	p. 219
Modern Reinterpretations of Redemptive Stories	p. 229
Stories about Jesus	p. 234
Smaller Packages in Language: Sentences and Words
Sentences in Use: Foundations in Truth	p. 243
Foundations for Meaning in Trinitarian Inter-personal Action	p. 251
Subsystems of Language	p. 259
Words and Their Meanings	p. 270
From Words to Perspectives	p. 280
Application
Truth as a Perspective	p. 289
Living in the Truth	p. 297
Interaction with Other Approaches to Language
Modernism and Postmodernism	p. 303
Doubt within Postmodernism	p. 311
Non-Christian Thinking	p. 320
Platonic Ideas	p. 326
The Contribution of Structural Linguistics	p. 332
Translation Theory	p. 338
Symbolic Logic and Logical Positivism	p. 350
The Theory of Speech Acts	p. 353
Reaching Out to Deconstruction	p. 370
Supplementary Reflections
Special Cases of Human Speech	p. 385
Bibliography	p. 391
General Index	p. 401
Scripture Index	p. 411
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In the Beginning Was the Word : Language - A God-Centered Approach

In the Beginning Was the Word : Language - A God-Centered Approach

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1433501791

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