Speaking the Truth in Love: The Theology of John M. Frame
Overview
Speaking the Truth in Love: The Theology of John M. Frame is a festschrift honoring Professor Frame’s career in seminary teaching and publishing.
Unlike many festschrifts, this book does not merely collect essays on subjects of interest to the honoree. Rather, it analyzes Frame’s own work in the fields of theology, apologetics, ethics, worship, the church, and other areas. Containing some forty articles, it is one of the largest festschrifts ever published. The authors have worked in numerous fields and are familiar with Frame’s work; many are Frame’s former students and colleagues.
This is the first large-scale analysis of Frame’s distinctive approach to theology. The essays go into considerable depth, comparing Frame’s conceptual approach with the approaches of others and even applying his ideas to various fields beyond those that he has explored.
Contents
Part One: Introduction
- My Books: Their Genesis and Main Ideas
- Backgrounds to My Thought
- The Heart of John Frame’s Theology
- Reflections of a Lifetime Theologian: An Extended Interview with John M. Frame
- Perspectives on Multiperspectivalism
- John Frame: The Closet Radical
Part Two: Theology
- John Frame’s Methodology: A Case Study in Constructive Calvinism
- Multiperspectivalism and the Reformed Faith
- The Prolegomena Principle: Frame and Bavinck
- The Word Made Applicable: Frame on Biblical Theology among the Disciplines
- John Frame: Orthodoxy and Creativity
- John Frame and Evangelicalism
- Frame’s Doctrine of God
- Frame as a Reformed Theologian
- A Living and Active Word: Some Notes on Frame’s View of Holy Scripture
- Frame on the Attributes of God
- Psalm 19: A Royal Sage Praises and Petitions I AM
Part Three: Apologetics
- Frame the Apologist
- Presuppositionalism and Frame’s Epistemology
- Van Til and Transcendental Argument Revisited
- Frame in the Context of Recent Apologetics
- Frame’s and Van Til’s Apologetic
- Frame’s Apologetics and the Challenges of Our Time
- Neopaganism: Stepchild of Secular Humanism
- Servant Thinking: The Polanyian Workings of the Framean Triad
Part Four: The Church
- A Triperspectival Model of Ministry
- I’ve Been “Framed”! The Influence of John Frame and His Teaching on This Pastor and Pastoral Ministry
- John Frame’s Missional-Ecumenical View of the Church: Unity in Christ Alone
- John Frame’s Pastoral Method for Christian Unity
Part Five: Worship
- What John Frame Taught Me about Worship
- Rethinking, Reforming: Frame’s Contributions to Contemporary Worship
Part Six: Ethics
- Frame’s Ethics: Working the Implications for Pastoral Care
- Why It Is Never Right to Lie: An Example of John Frame’s Influence on My Approach to Ethics
- Medical Ethics: Building on John Frame and His Work
Part Seven: Culture
- Frame’s Unique Contributions to the Christ-and-Culture Debate
- Passionately Demonstrating Truth: Triangulating Cultural Restoration
- John Frame’s Theology in the Present Cultural Context
- Doing Theology Today
Part Eight: Future Relevance
- John Frame and the Future of the Church
Top Highlights
“the Father, who develops an authoritative plan; the Son, who carries out that plan by his powerful control” (Page 16)
“and the Spirit, who as the presence of God applies that plan to nature, history, and human beings” (Page 16)
“God’s lordship, it includes God’s control, authority, and presence” (Page 4)
“control, authority, and presence are perspectives on one another” (Page 4)
“theology is for us, to meet human needs from the Word” (Page 4)
Contributors
- David Powlison
- Wayne Grudem
- Bruce K. Waltke
- Dennis E. Johnson
- Paul Helm
- Carl F. Ellis Jr.
- Richard L. Pratt Jr.
- P. Andrew Sandlin
- Joseph Emmanuel Torres
- Stephen W. Brown
- Tim J. R. Trumper
- Vern Poythress
- K. Scott Oliphint
- Mark A. Garcia
- Luder G. Whitlock Jr
- Justin Taylor
- James H. Grant Jr.
- Howard Griffith
- Roger Wagner
- Derek Thomas
- James N. Anderson
- Donald Collett
- William Edgar
- Steve R. Scrivener
- Joshua Perez
- Peter R. Jones
- Esther L. Meek
- Scotty Smith
- John H. Armstrong
- D. Clair Davis
- Reggie M. Kidd
- Paxson H. Jeancake
- Franklin E. Payne
- Jeffery J. Ventrella
- John J. Barber
Praise for the Print Edition
There are few, past or present, whom I would place . . . ahead of Professor Frame. . . . He has been privileged to make a strategic and potentially huge contribution to the future well-being . . . of the entire evangelical world.
—J.I. Packer, Board of Governors Professor of Theology, Regent College
What is refreshing is his ability to model a firm stance on truth with a heartfelt affection for people. Razor-sharp reason is used to carve error away from truth, not skin off adversaries.
—John Piper, Pastor for Preaching and Vision, Bethlehem Baptist Church
If Frame writes it, I read it, not because I always find myself in perfect agreement, but because he teaches me.
—D.A. Carson, research professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
My entire Bible-centered approach to all I have written on theology and ethics . . . owes much to Frame’s example and the convictions he instilled in me in his classes.
—Wayne Grudem, research professor of theology and biblical studies, Phoenix Seminary
John Frame has served the church as a teacher par excellence. . . . He has distinguished himself in the fields of theology, apologetics, philosophy, and Christian ethics.
—R.C. Sproul, founder and chairman, Ligonier Ministries
It is hard to imagine an area of theological study that has not been impacted by John’s work in some way.
—Bryan Chapell, professor of homiletics and president, Covenant Theological Seminary
Product Details
- Title: Speaking the Truth in Love: The Theology of John M. Frame
- Editor: John J. Hughes
- Publisher: P&R
- Publication Date: 2009
- Pages: 1,200
- Christian Group: Reformed
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Topic: Theology