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In the beginning was the word : language : a God-centered approach / Vern Sheridan Poythress.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, c2009.Description: 415 p. : PDF 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781433501791 (tpb)
  • 1433501791 (tpb)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV4319 .P69 2009
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Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 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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