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020			_a1433501791
020			_a9781433501791 :USD16.50
090			_aBV4319 _bP87 _b2009
100	1		_aPoythress, Vern S.
245	1	0	_aIn the beginning was the word : _blanguage : a God-centered approach / _cVern Sheridan Poythress.
260			_aWheaton, Ill. : _bCrossway Books, _cc2009.
300			_a415 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 391-399) and indexes.
505	0		_aLanguage and the Trinity -- God speaking -- God's creation of man -- God sustaining language -- Creativity in language -- Exploring examples of language -- The rules of language -- The rules of language --God's rule -- Responding to God's government -- Small pieces of language within the big pieces -- Imaging -- World history -- The fall into sin -- Redemption through Christ -- Peoples, cultures, and languages -- Principles for cultural reconciliation -- Good and bad kinds of diversity -- Human action -- Speaking and writing -- Analysis and verbal interpretation -- Interpreting the Bible -- Genre -- Storytelling -- The story of redemoption -- Many mini-redemptions -- Counterfeit stories of redemoption -- Modern reinterpretations of redemoptive stories -- Stories about Jesus -- Sentences in use : foundations in truth -- Foundations for meaning in trinitarian inter-personal action -- Subsystems of language -- Words and their meanings -- Truth as perspective -- Living in the truth -- Appendices. A. Modernism and postmodernism -- B. Doubt within postmodernism -- C. Non-Christian thinking -- D. Platonic ideas -- E. The contribution of structural linguistics -- F. Translation theory -- G. Symbolic logic and logical positivism -- H. The theory of speech acts -- I. Reaching out to deconstruction -- J. Special cases of human speech.
650		4	_aCommunication _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
650		4	_aLanguage and languages _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
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