One of the men that have been influential in shaping my Christian thought life is John Frame. Reading his work has been a delight and an experience of worship of God for His wisdom, glory and splendor. His writings has helped me to think more clearly, biblically, and logically. Since this is God’s World that we live in I think what I got the most from John Frame than other theologians is the hunger to see the beauty of the inter-relationship of…everything. Doctrines relate to other doctrines. Areas of philosophies need and presuppose other areas of philosophy. There’s inter-relationships of academic disciplines. There’s a relationship between theology and life. Its like a symphony; they all go together in harmony because of God’s Wisdom. There’s an apologetic there with the beautiful coherence of the Christian worldview, of God’s revelation between the Word and World. Which is one of the aesthetically pleasing aspect of a robust Presuppositional apologetics. But its more than an apologetics, it has made me live my life seeing living colors of God’s World.
What follows below are all four volumes of John Frame’s Theology of Lordship with links to my reviews that explains further why I recommend them. I bought one volume at a time as a young seminarian without a lot of money, with the goal that after graduating I would be able to read them. Then I slowly read 5-10 pages a day every morning and finished it. They are doctrinal yet devotional, deep but “do-able,” deals with difficult topics but also demonstrate the deep dive of doctrines we see as more simple.
Review: The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God by John M. Frame
Review: The Doctrine of God by John Frame
Review: The Doctrine of the Christian Life (A Theology of Lordship) by John Frame
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Thanks for reblogging this! How are you doing btw?
You’re very welcome Pastor Jim. No complaints praise God 😍
I’m glad you pastors do the heavy theological lifting! 🙂 But of course the Lord gives you the desire to read and understand this calculus.
What Tom said LOL.
Wow! All I can say is Wow! Thanks for posting these reviews SlimJim.
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