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Friday, September 15, 2017

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

Crossway books has a forthcoming festschrift in honor of Vern Poythress, the polymath at WTS: John Frame, Wayne Grudem, & John Hughes, eds. Redeeming the Life of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Vern Poythress (Crossway 2017). 

Contents
Foreword by J. I. Packer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
PART 1 SONS OF YESHUA
1 Redeeming Science: A Father-Son Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Ransom Poythress
2 The Grace and Gift of Differentness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Justin Poythress
PART 2 EXEGESIS
3 The New Testament Background of ἐκκλησία Revisited
Yet Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
G. K. Beale
4 The Divine Choice between the Offerings of Cain and Abel . . . . . . 61
In Whan Kim
5 Reading the Lord’s Prayer Christologically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Brandon D. Crowe
6 Psalms Applied to Both Christ and Christians: Psalms 8, 22,
34, 118 and Romans 15:3 // Psalm 69:9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Robert J. Cara
7 What Kind of Prophecy Continues? Defining the Differences
between the Continuationism and Cessationism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Iain M. Duguid
8 Christocentrism and Christotelism: The Spirit, Redemptive
History, and the Gospel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Lane G. Tipton
9 What “Symphony of Sighs”? Reflections on the Eschatological
Future of the Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171
Camden M. Bucey
11 Language and the Trinity: A Meeting Place for the Global
Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Pierce Taylor Hibbs
12 Jonathan Edwards and God’s Involvement in Creation:
An Examination of “Miscellanies,” no. 1263 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203
Jeffrey C. Waddington
PART 4 WORLDVIEW
13 Redeeming the Seminary by Redeeming Its Worldview . . . . . . . . . . .221
Peter A. Lillback
14 Presuppositionalism and Perspectivalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239
John M. Frame
15 The Death of Tragedy: Reflections upon a Tragic Aspect of
This Present Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257
Carl R. Trueman
16 Beholding the Glory of Jesus: How a Christ-Centered
Perspective Restores in Us the Splendor of God’s Image . . . . . . . . . .275
Brian Courtney Wood
PART 5 HISTORY
17 Christian Missions in China: A Reformed Perspective . . . . . . . . . . .295
Luke P. Y. Lu
18 Historiography: Redeeming History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317
Diane Poythress
PART 6 ETHICS
19 Christians Never Have to Choose the “Lesser Sin” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .337
Wayne Grudem
20 Perspectives on the Kingdom of God in Romans 14:17 . . . . . . . . . .367
John J. Hughes
Appendix: Scripture Versions Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .395
Writings of Vern Poythress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .399
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .415
General Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .418
Scripture Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .419

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