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 ’The Word of God’ is a multi–faceted concept. God speaks but Word is one of Jesus’s names. God’s personal communications take other forms, through prophets, apostles, and the written Word. Frame investigates them all.

Contents

PART ONE: ORIENTATION
1. The Personal–Word Model 3
2. Lordship and the Word 8
PART TWO: GOD’S WORD IN MODERN THEOLOGY
3. Modern Views of Revelation 15
4. Revelation and Reason 21
5. Revelation and History 26
6. Revelation and Human Subjectivity 34
7. Revelation and God Himself 40
PART THREE: THE NATURE OF GOD’S WORD
8. What Is the Word of God? 47
9. God’s Word as His Controlling Power 50
10. God’s Word as His Meaningful Authority 54
11. God’s Word as His Personal Presence 63
PART FOUR: HOW THE WORD COMES TO US
12. The Media of God’s Word 71
13. God’s Revelation through Events 75
14. God’s Revelation through Words: The Divine Voice 82
15. God’s Revelation through Words: Prophets and Apostles 87
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16. The Permanence of God’s Written Word 101
17. God’s Written Words in the Old Testament 105
18. Respect for God’s Written Words in the Old Testament 112
19. Jesus’ View of the Old Testament 118
20. The Apostles’ View of the Old Testament 121
21. The New Testament as God’s Written Words 129
22. The Canon of Scripture 133
23. The Inspiration of Scripture 140
24. The Content of Scripture 145
25. Scripture’s Authority, Its Content, and Its Purpose 163
26. The Inerrancy of Scripture 167
27. The Phenomena of Scripture 177
28. Bible Problems 183
29. The Clarity of Scripture 201
30. The Necessity of Scripture 210
31. The Comprehensiveness of Scripture 216
32. The Sufficiency of Scripture 220
33. The Transmission of Scripture 239
34. Translations and Editions of Scripture 253
35. Teaching and Preaching 258
36. Sacraments 264
37. Theology 272
38. Confessions, Creeds, Traditions 280
39. Human Reception of Scripture 289
40. The Interpretation of Scripture 292
41. Assurance 297
42. Person–Revelation: The Divine Witness 304
43. Human Beings as Revelation 316
44. Writing on the Heart 320
45. Summary and Organizational Reflections 328
46. Epilogue 332