Select Works of John Frame (6 vols.)

by John M. Frame

Publisher:

P&R

, 2001–2023

Overview

The Select Works of John Frame brings together seven important works of one of the most influential Reformed theologians working today. Drawn from over 40 years of scholarly expertise, John Frame’s writings cover a broad range of theological and philosophical topics, written in his lucid and engaging style. With this collection, you’ll get many of John Frame’s shorter theological writings in one place, including his Systematic Theology.

Key Features

• Provides accesible theology from an acclaimed Reformed scholar
• Challenges Christians to delve more deeply into God’s Word
• Covers a broad range of theological topics

Product Details

• Title: Select Works of John Frame
• Author: John Frame
• Publisher: P&R
• Resources: 6
• Pages: 3,649
• Christian Group: Reformed
• Resource Type: Collected Works

John M. Frame: Talks and Lectures

• Author: John M. Frame
• Resource Type: Audio

This resource contains approximately 70 hours of audio lectures by John M. Frame that cover a host of theological topics.

No Other God: A Response to Open Theism

• Author: John M. Frame
• Publisher: P & R
• Publication Date: 2001
• Pages: 235

Using ideas developed in The Doctrine of God as a theological basis, Frame provides a biblical analysis and critique of the “open theist” movement, which is shaking the church today by challenging the Reformed doctrines of God’s sovereignty, foreknowledge, and providence. In this timely work, Frame clearly describes open theism and evaluates it biblically. He addresses such questions as “How do open theists read the Bible?” “Is love God’s most important attribute?” “Is God’s will the ultimate explanation of everything?” “Do we have genuine freedom?” “Is God ever weak or changeable?” “Does God know everything in advance?” Frame not only answers the objections of open theists, he also sharpens our understanding of the relationship between God’s eternal plan and the decisions and events of our lives.

Open theism is bad news. The appearance of this book is good news. Precisely because God is closed and not open to the nullification of his purposes (Job 42:2), he has opened a future for believers that is utterly secure no matter what we suffer. The key that would open the defeat of God is eternally closed within the praiseworthy vault of His precious sovereignty. John Frame delights to show when it is good to be closed and when it is good to be open. And the Bible is his criterion.

—John Piper, pastor, Bethlehem Baptist Church

This book is something both to read and to give away . . . both needed and effective.

—D.A. Carson, research professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Here one will see vividly so much that is wrong with open theism while encountering afresh the beauty and glory of the true and living God of the Bible.

—Bruce A. Ware, professor of Christian theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

A convincing . . . biblical case for a God whose sovereignty is something not to be avoided but cherished.

—William Edgar, professor of apologetics, Westminster Theological Seminary

A devastating critique of the concept of human freedom as articulated in the “open theistic” view.

—Roger R. Nicole, professor of theology, emeritus, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando

Concise Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief

• Author: John M. Frame
• Publisher: P & R
• Publication Date: 2023
• Pages: 519

Writing both to the beginner and to anyone reviewing core biblical doctrines, John Frame presents a brief but comprehensive introduction to Reformed systematics. This enhanced edition of Salvation Belongs to the Lord (2006) provides readers with study questions, memory verses, and additional resources to help them to grasp the general shape and content of Scripture’s teaching.

Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief

• Author: John M. Frame
• Publisher: P&R
• Publication Date: 2013
• Pages: 1,280

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Systematic Theology is the culmination and creative synthesis of John Frame’s writing on, teaching about, and studying of the Word of God. This magisterial opus—at once biblical, clear, cogent, readable, accessible, and practical—summarizes the mature thought of one of the most important and original Reformed theologians of the last hundred years. It will enable you to see clearly how the Bible explains God’s great, sweeping plan for mankind.

Few in our day champion a vision of God as massive, magnificent, and biblical as John Frame’s. For decades, he has given himself to the church, to his students, and to meticulous thinking and the rigorous study of the Bible. He has winsomely, patiently, and persuasively contended for the gospel in the secular philosophical arena, as well as in the thick of the church worship wars and wrestlings with feminism and open theism. He brings together a rare blend of big-picture thinking, level-headed reflection, biblical fidelity, a love for the gospel and the church, and the ability to write with care and clarity.

—John Piper, founder, Desiring God Ministries

John M. Frame’s Systematic Theology is a remarkable achievement. It is simultaneously scholarly yet accessible, sweeping in scope but penetrating in insight, steeped in historic orthodoxy yet fresh in reflection.

—Peter A. Lillback, president, Westminster Theological Seminary

Systematic Theology . . . is a worthy climax to the life’s work of one who has only ever sought to be a faithful servant of Christ, teaching in his church. It is a privilege to celebrate its appearing and to commend it for serious study. I guarantee that the dividends of such study will be uniformly high. Thank you, John Frame, for this superb gift.

—J.I. Packer, Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology, Regent College

The Amsterdam Philosophy

• Author: John M. Frame
• Publisher: P & R
• Publication Date: 2005
• Pages: 55

This booklet was published in the midst of theological warfare. Representatives of the Amsterdam philosophy (Herman Dooyeweerd and others) were taking a militant stance against traditional Reformed theology, and the controversy created partisan battles on the campus of Westminster Theological Seminary, where Frame was a young professor. It also threatened to split churches, Christian schools, and other Christian organizations. As a member of a committee of the Ohio Presbytery of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Frame was asked to write a brief study of the movement. This booklet is the result.

The Collected Shorter Theological Writings

• Author: John M. Frame
• Publisher: P & R
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 1,560

Like most academics, Frame published much of his thought in the form of articles rather than books. The Collected Shorter Theological Writings includes all his theologically focused articles published in scholarly journals, multiauthor volumes, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and more popular publications, as well as his articles posted at such internet sites as www.frame-poythress.org and www.reformedperspectives.org. There also are a number of book reviews in this collection. In his book reviews, Frame tries not only to describe and evaluate an author’s work but also to engage in a dialogue—an exchange of views. Thus, his book reviews contain many of his ideas, as well as those of other writers. Shorter Theological Writings also includes a number of written sermons, syllabi, lecture outlines, and study guides. The included “Primer on Perspectivalism” provides a concise introduction to some of Frame’s distinctive ideas.

About John Frame

John M. Frame (b. 1939) is an American philosopher and a Calvinist theologian especially noted for his work in epistemology, presuppositional apologetics, systematic theology, and ethics. He is one of the foremost interpreters and critics of the thought of Cornelius Van Til. He is currently professor of systematic theology and philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando.