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Logic as a tool of theology.

Frame discusses language as a tool for theology and related subtopics.

Scripture as painting, Scripture as window, and Scripture as mirror.

The Existential Justification of Knowledge

The Situational Justification of Knowledge

The Normative Justification of Knowledge

"Rationalism recognizes a need for criteria, or standards; empiricism a need for objective, publicly knowable facts; and subjectivism a need for our beliefs to meet our own internal criteria. A Christian epistemology will recognize all of those concerns but will differ from the rationalist, empiricist, and subjectivist schools of thought in important ways."

Frame critiques rationalism, empiricism, and subjectivism, which are idolatries of the mind, the world, and the self, respectively.

Subjectivism does not work because one must believe in some kind of objective truth to function in life, including teaching subjectivism itself. The other two "objective" tendencies inevitably fall into hopeless subjectivism when trying to bridge the gap between "the one and the many."

"In making ethical decisions, we meet again the factors we have been discussing-the law, the situation, the self. Every ethical decision involves the application of a law (norm, principle) to a situation by a person (self)."

"The non-Christian, of course, can accept an absolute only if that absolute is impersonal and therefore makes no demands and has no power to bless or curse. There are personal gods in paganism, but none of them is absolute; there are absolutes in paganism, but none is personal. Only in Christianity (and in other religions influenced by the Bible) is there such a concept as a "personal absolute.""