With scriptural teaching and broad-ranging application, this  follow-up to Redeeming Science builds a Christian theology  of language and reforms our thinking about words.    Language is not only the centerpiece of our everyday lives, but it  gives significance to all that we do. It also reflects and reveals  our all-sustaining Creator, whose providential governance extends  to the intricacies of language. Writes Vern Poythress, "God  controls and specifies the meaning of each word-not only in English  but in Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Italian, and every other language.  When, in our modernism or postmodernism, we drop him from our  account of language, our words suddenly become a prison that keeps  us from the truth rather than opening doors to the truth. But we  will use our words more wisely if we come to know God and  understand him in relation to our language."    It is such biblically informed insights that make In the  Beginning Was the Word especially valuable. Words are  important to us all, and this book-written at a level that  presupposes no knowledge of linguistics-develops a positive,  God-centered view of language. In his interaction with multiple  disciplines Poythress offers plenty of application, not just for  scholars and church leaders but for any Christian thinking  carefully about his speech.

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