Logic: A God-Centered Approach to the Foundation of Western Thought

by Vern Poythress

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2013

Overview

For Christians looking to improve critical thinking skills, here is an accessible introduction to the study of logic as well as an in-depth treatment of the discipline from a professor with six academic degrees and over 30 years experience teaching. Questions for further reflection are included at the end of each chapter as well as helpful diagrams and charts for use in college and graduate-level classrooms.

Vern Poythress has undertaken a radical recasting of the study of logic in this revolutionary work from a Christian worldview.

Key Features

• Provides an accessible introduction to the study of logic
• Includes questions for further reflection
• Features helpful diagrams and charts for use in college and graduate-level classrooms

Contents

Part 1: Introducing Logic and Argument

• 1. The Importance of Logic
• 2. Formal Logic

Part 2: God in Logic

• 3. Logic Revealing God
• 4. Logic as Personal
• 5. Logic within Language
• 6. Suppressing the Truth
• 7. Logic and the Trinity
• 8. The Absoluteness of God
• 9. Logic and Necessity
• 10. Transcendence and Immanence
• 11. Reflections on the Mediation of Human Knowledge of Logic
• 12. Fallacies and God

Part 3: The Problem of Classification

• 13. Analogy
• 14. Unity and Diversity
• 15. Stability of Meaning
• 16. Form and Meaning
• 17. Context for Meaning
• 18. Persons and Logic
• 19. Logic and Religious Antithesis
• 20. Theistic Proofs

Part 4: Aristotelian Syllogisms

• 21. Theistic Foundations for a Syllogism
• 22. Venn Diagrams
• 23. Syllogisms of the First Figure

Product Details

• Title: Logic: A God-Centered Approach to the Foundation of Western Thought
• Author: Vern Poythress
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 733
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Logic; Faith and reason
• ISBNs: 9781433532320, 9781433532290, 9781433532306, 9781433532313, 1433532328, 1433532298, 1433532301, 143353231X
• Resource ID: LLS:9781433532320
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:43:48Z

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.