Speaking the Truth in Love

THE THEOLOGY OF

John M. Frame

Edited by

JOHN J. HUGHES

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General Editor: John J. Hughes

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Speaking the truth in love : the theology of John Frame / edited by John J. Hughes.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-1-59638-164-3 (cloth)

1. Frame, John M., 1939– 2. Reformed Church—Doctrines. 3. Theology, Doctrinal.

I. Hughes, John J., 1947–

BX9419.F73S64 2009

230'.42092—dc22

2009034141

In Memory of

Professor John Murray

1898–1975

Contents

A Note to the Reader

John J. Hughes

Foreword

J. I. Packer

Preface

John M. Frame

Acknowledgments

John J. Hughes

Abbreviations

A Note of Special Appreciation

Robert C. (Ric) Cannada Jr.

Personal Words

Many Friends

Part One: Introduction

1. My Books: Their Genesis and Main Ideas

John M. Frame

2. Backgrounds to My Thought

John M. Frame

3. The Heart of John Frame’s Theology

John J. Hughes

4. Reflections of a Lifetime Theologian: An Extended Interview with John M. Frame

P. Andrew Sandlin and John M. Frame

5. Perspectives on Multiperspectivalism

Joseph Emmanuel Torres

6. John Frame: The Closet Radical

Stephen W. Brown

Part Two: Theology

7. John Frame’s Methodology: A Case Study in Constructive Calvinism

Tim J. R. Trumper

8. Multiperspectivalism and the Reformed Faith

Vern Sheridan Poythress

9. The Prolegomena Principle: Frame and Bavinck

K. Scott Oliphint

10. The Word Made Applicable: Frame on Biblical Theology among the Disciplines

Mark A. Garcia

11. John ...