Vern S. Poythress, "A Simple Traffic-Light Model for Tagmemic Theory" (PDF), Originally published in Semiotica, 225 (2018):253-267. Used with permission. …
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How should Christians understand chance and randomness?
I appreciate the question. It is an important one, given the ways in which issues about chance come up both in scientific reflections and in everyday life. The question is difficult to answer in a …
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Christians Don’t Need to Submit to Every Scientific Finding
Experimental vs. Historical One of the things I think to keep in mind is that there’s a difference between experimental science and what you might call historical science—or science that’s trying …
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Vern Poythress’ ThD Dissertation
Vern S. Poythress, Structural Approaches to Understanding the Theology of the Apostle Paul (PDF). This piece is my Th.D. dissertation at the University of Stellenbosch, 1981. Quite a bit of time has …
Who God Is
Genesis 1–3 is an account of things that happened in time and space—so it’s a reality of what we might call nonfiction or historical. But it’s actual things, not made-up things, that God did that you …
Johannes Oecolampadius as Biblical Interpreter
Johannes Oecolampadius as Biblical Interpreter by Diane M. Poythress [The following is a pre-publication manuscript that is to be included in the Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation, to …
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