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How do we know, that we know? Or better put, how do we begin to have any comprehension of the world that we know?

For John Frame, a professor at Reformed Theological Seminary, all knowledge, of ourselves, of the world around us and anything beyond, the starting point begins and ends with knowledge of God. As such, revelation, knowledge gained from outside our own perspective, given directly to us, must come, or most of what our attempts at knowledge are mere stabs in the dark.This book is the result of years of teaching, and in fact, the book itself, written about twenty years ago, came about from a class on the Christian Mind.

This is a deep and complex book. Many have said, including its author (!), that a great many of its readers will find use of it as primarily a reference book. But there are great truths to think and dwell upon, and yes, wrestle with, if the reader digs deeper.A key concept expounded in this book is the concept of three perspectives - the rational, the situational and the experiential; with the idea that all forms of knowledge, that is that knowledge of the world, ourselves and God relates in an inter related triangle that are identical and interdependent.

In other words they all rely on each other. In other words, while different, all ways that we know, rely on each other. It would be strange to many Christians to think that it is not first the Bible, or revealed revelation that rules knowledge.

But Frame, really arguing from a very traditional Reformed stance, says that what you bring to understanding the Scriptures, your reason, your world that you live in and your personal contact with God that determines the way that Scripture rules in the lives of believers. Because Frame writes of a sovereign God, who reveals himself through people, and through nature, that man is in God's image and that nature declares God, that he cites a three way understanding for how we know, beginning with how God reveals himself to us.Due to the first way of knowledge, God revealing himself to man, Frame cites the uses and abilities of tools of knowing: logic, language, history, science and philosophy, in service to a ruling and revealing God.

He strongly believes that every man is a theologian and as a result wrestles with these questions every day, in every part of his life. Again, this is a deep book, but in many ways, it is just an introductory book for dealing with the idea of how do we know what we know, beginning with how God has revealed and continues to reveal himself to man.If the reader is looking for a long term read dealing with aspects of God's rule over every area of his life, including the religious portion, this would be a fine place to start.

This book was a wonderfully insightful introduction (not a light introduction by any means) into such a complex topic. Not only that, it gave me a deeper understanding of my Christian faith, relationship to God, and how to develope that relationship in all areas of life. For example, Frame's section on knowledge and obedience was spiritually developing and I continue to look at Scripture with that in mind, especially when reading the prayers of Paul. Also, it helped show the importance of a presuppositional approach to all fields of study, which, I think, allows Chrisitans to embrace certain fields of studies, such as science and psychology, that have been thought of as taboo by some Christians.All that to say, this book is a book that will deeply enrich your spiritual life, as well as your intellectual life, but to divide the two into separate parts is not accurate. More accurately, look at the intellectual life as being a perspective on the spiritual life;. I do not consider myself Reformed (maybe more reformed after reading it) and I was deeply moved by this book and would be saddened to see this book missed by other Christians simply because it was written by a reformed author.

So I hope this will encourage all Chrisitans, regardless of the denominational/non-denominational ties, to pick up this book and increase in the knowledge of God. Overall, I felt this was a very strong book from Frame. He addresses the epistemological issues of theology very well in a clear, precise, and cogent manner. Frame promotes his perspectivalism throughout the book as he emphasizes the unity and diversity we encounter in epistemology. I suppose I was expecting a more technical or philosophical treatment of the subject when I picked up the book and felt the book wasn't as technical as I had desired being that I have read much Van Til. Notwithstanding, this book is an excellent read and I would go so far as to say required reading for Christians seeking to get a better grasp of a Biblical worldview and hence its epistemology.

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In this book John M. Frame explores our relationship with God as a knowing relationship. John says that we tend to forget how frequently in Scripture God performs His might act so that men will know that He is Lord. The author thus examines our knowledge of ourselves as it connects to our knowledge of ourselves and of the world in which we live. This book shows to us that divinity is the application of God's word to our lives in all situations. Taking this point of view the author adds practical insight and counsel for how we should live.Frame combines trenchant analyses of theological, apologetic, and epistemological issues with refreshingly practical insights for living in the knowledge of God.I believe that this entire series of John M.

Frame came in the right time with a fresh though and even a conservative theology which was needed for a long time. I enjoyed the whole book, but I would highlight the first part of the book, 'God, the Covenant Lord,' as an interesting subject for all Christians to know about. This chapter deals basically with three points: A. The Biblical Concept of Lorship. Lordship and Knowledge. The Unbeliever's Knowledge.

I cannot point a very specific weakness of the book, perhaps I was too exited reading it, only if I have to point to something it would be the lack of more historical reference, so we might relate more practically each subject with specifics historical events in the Christianity.This material will be very useful for me as a minister and a Bible College teacher. It will be nice to introduce some new thought in both areas. It helped me realize how I can better relate with the Lordship of God. According to the author this book was completed in December 1984 (382). I finished this book thirty years after it was written on December 2014 and I would say that it is a work that is more relevant than ever.

This book is an exploration of a Biblical view of knowledge and specifically the pursuit of the knowledge of God. John Frame does a masterful job showing us how Scripture’s teachings have bearing towards a Christian theory of knowledge.

Frame does caution early in the book that this work is more theological rather than philosophical but I think this is the book’s strength in that Frame is driven by a high view of God’s Word in his construction of a distinctively Christian view of knowledge.This is the first volume in Frame’s four book “Theology of Lordship” series. It so happened that I completed John Frame’s Doctrine of the Christian Life first, which is actually Frame’s third volume and I found that some of the materials on perspectivalism wasn’t necessarily new when I read this present volume. Of course, the Doctrine of the Knowledge of God lays the foundation for the other volume in this series in that it articulate, explain and defend the concept that knowledge is perspectival; that is, there are aspects to knowledge that are inter-dependent though distinctions could be made.

Specifically, Frame sees a triade that there is a normative, situational and existential side of knowledge. Throughout the book this triade is mentioned again and again and Frame shows its usefulness in theology, apologetics and philosophy. I found it useful as a template in identifying people’s reductionistic fallacy when they assume only one perspective is right over and against the other.

Church Doctrine Pdf

Frame’s perspectivalism is also useful as a tool to make one conscious of being balanced and well rounded when one approach theology and philosophy.The book is divided into three parts with part one focusing on the objects of knowledge, the second part on the justification of knowledge and the third on the method of knowledge. I enjoyed part two’s discussion of various traditional epistemology followed by Frame’s identification of their problem. This is helpful in equipping a Christian apologist to know how to refute bad epistemologies.

But I also appreciate John Frame’s direction in the second chapter of part two of the book in constructing a positive justification of knowledge.Other parts of the book that I really enjoyed include Frame’s discussion about anti-abstractionism in which he defends the notion that abstraction is not necessarily a bad thing in of itself and that we can’t help but to think abstractly in various degrees whenever we think or communicate. I also appreciate John Frame sharing his perspective on Reformed Epistemology which Frame devote an appendix of good length to the issue by means of a book review. I also enjoyed the book’s discussion of the laws of logic and how the laws of logic ought to be thought of as a subset of ethics. Frame’s discussion about the human faculty involved in the process of knowing must not be missed.

I was pleasantly surprised to find how holistic John Frame was in that he even discussed the qualification of a theologian! Sanctification is important in the knowledge of God and vice versa!As it is typical of John Frame’s work, I found the book to be extremely helpful and every page to be stimulating and thought provoking. Frame’s work often make me think of theological methods and makes me more aware of my own method and the method of others in arriving at a theological position. Typical of other work by Frame is that I enjoyed reading this book and enjoyed God in the process—his work often leads me to worship God! It is not a dry systematic theology book, as I found the book to be quite a good devotional as well.

This book is also good for those who have read a lot of introductory materials on Presuppositional apologetics and would like to expand more indepth Christian epistemology from a Van Tillian perspective. I highly recommend this work.