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In the Beginning Was the Word: Language--A God-Centered Approach ReviewI get it: all meaning presupposes and requires theism. From "In The Beginning Was The Word: Language A God-Centered Approach," there's seldom a cease-fire during Vern Poythress' cogent, erudite musings on language. While his apologetic chops are impeccable in this well-crafted philosophical volume, the weighty and powerful essays cry out for apologetic application regarding the subject of language.
Vern Poythress (esteemed and longtime Westminster Theological Seminary professor) argues that language necessitates Christian theism: "God is personal, and man is clearly personal. As an aspect of his personal character, God is able to speak and use language. Human beings likewise are able to speak and use language ... Human language and human use of language come about only because God has created human beings" with the capacity to use language. (p. 29).
Human language flows from God's ontology and economy as "The Father is the speaker, the Son as discourse, and the Spirit as the hearer" (p. 33). Because of sin there is a division of languages and the gospel is the means to overcome those "barriers" (p. 137). All ethnic groups and cultures can find their unity, not by mere utilitarian methods, by having faith in the truth of Christ (pp. 140-141). Dr. Poythress contends that the unity in diversity within humanity is a finite replication of the triune God forasmuch as the Trinity is the solution to the problem of the "one and the many" (pp. 148/166, etc.).
"In the Beginning Was the Word: Language: A God-Centered Approach" features work including:
- Translation Theory
- Diction and Syntax
- Literary Theory
- Cultural Reconciliation
- Logical Positivism.
The author also discusses at length the notion that all myths are mini-stories of God's work of redemption and the stories of truth within scripture (pp. 195-240 - he covers the work of C.S. Lewis and Bultmann that touch on the topic of myths). Poythress rightly contends that language must convey truth and those who deny such fall into self-impaling assertions (considering that they must employ language as meaningful, to deny that language is meaningful). Poythress adds: "Language when God uses it has a certain ontological primacy" (p. 256).
Spoken truth retains its truth "only because God is continually present" (without the Christian worldview one is faced with Hume's problem of Induction and this problem also surfaces in the dynamic of language. Additionally it can be utilized to demonstrate that mathematics, identity, and countless truths have permanent aspects to them only because God is always present and continually sustains them. An always-in-flux material cosmos lacks the capacity to guarantee a retention of anything over time, even a short duration of time. Hence the non-theist cannot account for the truth that 2 + 2 = 4 even five minutes after it was asserted. The omnipotent and always present God has the capacity to guarantee truths can retain their truth in the future).

Furthermore the author argues that universals require God and connectivity presupposes and requires God (pp. 256-260).
This significant book provides various outstanding graphs that add precision and comprehension. Chapters include:
- Language and the Trinity
- God Sustaining Language
- God's Rule
- Imaging
- World history
- Speaking and Writing
- Truth as a Perspective
- Modernism and Postmodernism
- Doubt
- Platonic Ideas
- Reaching Out to Deconstructionism
- and numerous additional useful and intriguing topics.
This dynamic volume has been endorsed by John Frame, C. John Collins, and Wayne Grudem. Frame extols this work: "God is not merely a possibility, not merely a conclusion, but the starting point for any understanding at all."
This is a necessary and important resource for philosophers, epistemologists, ministers, logicians, linguistic scholars, missionaries, translators, and other people in disciplines which actively rely on the study of language.
The writing is splendid and accessible; an outstanding presentation for the non-scholar or the academician.
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"Christianity Today" opined that Poythress in his "theology of language leaves no stone or relevant Scripture verse unturned."In the Beginning Was the Word: Language--A God-Centered Approach Overview
Language is not only the centerpiece of our everyday lives, butit gives significance to all that we do. It also reflects andreveals our all-sustaining Creator, whose providential governanceextends to the intricacies of language. Writes Vern Poythress, "Godcontrols and specifies the meaning of each word-not only in Englishbut in Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Italian, and every other language.When, in our modernism or postmodernism, we drop him from ouraccount of language, our words suddenly become a prison that keepsus from the truth rather than opening doors to the truth. But wewill use our words more wisely if we come to know God andunderstand him in relation to our language."It is such biblically informed insights that make In theBeginning Was the Word especially valuable. Words areimportant to us all, and this book-written at a level thatpresupposes no knowledge of linguistics-develops a positive,God-centered view of language. In his interaction with multipledisciplines Poythress offers plenty of application, not just forscholars and church leaders but for any Christian thinkingcarefully about his speech.


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