Redeeming the Life of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Vern Poythress

Vern Poythress, one of today’s leading Reformed theologians, has made many vital contributions to evangelical scholarship—particularly a vision to glorify Christ as Lord over all areas of human life in order to redeem all realms of human thought.

In honor of his many years of faithful thinking and writing, twenty evangelical scholars have come together to produce a set of essays on topics of importance throughout his ministry: biblical exegesis, the doctrine of the Trinity, worldview, history, and ethics.

Table of Contents:

 

Part 1: Sons of Yeshua

1. Redeeming Science: A Father-Son Tale (Ransom Poythress)

2. The Grace and Gift of Differentness (Justin Poythress)

 

Part 2: Exegesis

3. The New Testament Background of εκκλη ία Revisited

Yet Again (G. K. Beale)

4. The Divine Choice between the Offerings of Cain and Abel (In Whan Kim)

5. Reading the Lord’s Prayer Christologically (Brandon D. Crowe)

6. Psalms Applied to Both Christ and Christians: Psalms 8, 22, 34, 118 and Romans 15:3 // Psalm 69:9 (Robert J. Cara)

7. What Kind of Prophecy Continues? Defining the Differences between the Continuationism and Cessationism (Iain M. Duguid)

8. Christocentrism and Christotelism: The Spirit, Redemptive History, and the Gospel (Lane G. Tipton)

9. What “Symphony of Sighs”? Reflections on the Eschatological Future of the Creation (Richard B. Gaffin Jr.)

 

Part 3: Doctrine of the Trinity

10. The Trinity and Monotheism: Christianity and Islam in the Theology of Cornelius Van Til (Camden M. Bucey)

11. Language and the Trinity: A Meeting Place for the Global Church (Pierce Taylor Hibbs)

12. Jonathan Edwards and God’s Involvement in Creation: An Examination of “Miscellanies,” no. 1263 (Jeffrey C. Waddington)

 

Part 4: Worldview

13. Redeeming the Seminary by Redeeming Its Worldview (Peter A. Lillback)

14. Presuppositionalism and Perspectivalism (John M. Frame)

15. The Death of Tragedy: Reflections upon a Tragic Aspect of This Present Age (Carl R. Trueman)

16. Beholding the Glory of Jesus: How a Christ-Centered Perspective Restores in Us the Splendor of God’s Image (Brian Courtney Wood)

 

Part 5: History

17. Christian Missions in China: A Reformed Perspective (Luke P. Y. Lu)

18. Historiography: Redeeming History (Diane Poythress)

 

Part 6: Ethics

19. Christians Never Have to Choose the “Lesser Sin” (Wayne Grudem)

20. Perspectives on the Kingdom of God in Romans 14:17 (John J. Hughes)