Redeeming Our Thinking about History: A God-Centered Approach

by Vern Poythress

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2022

Overview

How does knowledge of the past shape Christians’ view of God, Christ’s redemption, and humanity as a whole? In his new book, Vern S. Poythress teaches Christians how to study and write about the past by emphasizing God’s own command to remember his works and share them with the next generation. Readers will explore concepts such as providentialism, Christian historiography, divine purpose, and the 4 basic phases of biblical history: creation, fall, redemption, and consummation. By learning how to appropriately study history, believers will begin to recognize God’s lordship over all events and how even minor incidents fit into his overarching plan.

Key Features

• Examines the four basic phases of biblical history: creation, fall, redemption, and consummation
• Emphasizes God’s own command to remember his works and share them with the next generation
• Shows Christians how to study and write about the past

Contents

• Part 1: What We Need in Order to Analyze History
• Part 2: History in the Bible
• Part 3: Understanding God's Purposes in History
• Part 4: What Does History Writing Look like?
• Part 5: Alternate Versions of How to Think about History

Product Details

• Title: Redeeming Our Thinking about History: A God-Centered Approach
• Author: Vern Poythress
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 247
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: History › Religious aspects--Christianity; History › Methodology
• ISBNs: 9781433571442, 9781433571473, 9781433571459, 9781433571466, 1433571447, 1433571471, 1433571455, 1433571463
• Resource ID: LLS:RDMNGRGDCNPPRCH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:36:07Z

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About Vern Poythress

Vern Sheridan Poythress (b. 1946) is an evangelical philosopher, theologian, and Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary where he has taught since 1976. In 1981 he was ordained as a teaching elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Synod, which later merged with the Presbyterian Church in America.