The author of this Gospel continues that mission in his own inspired writing, saying:

The Word incarnated in order to make the father known (1:18 see also). This one-and-only Word (Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity) is infinite-personal, relational, and rational. “In the beginning was the Word,” John’s Gospel affirms in his titantically important prologue. Let me explain how this book-which makes no confession of Christian faith-can advance this incomparable end. This must be corrected, not merely for the sake of grammatical fussiness, but for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31 Colossians 3:17). Writing is essential in this mission of God, although it is falling on hard and bitter times, it seems-and for many reasons. When I teach students philosophy, apologetics, and social criticism, I exhort them to make known what they are learning-to “take it to the streets” to expand the Kingdom of God (Matthew 6:33 28:18-20). Our seminary students are taught to develop, defend, and apply the truth of the Christian worldview to the whole of life, under the Lordship of Christ, as Francis Schaeffer said. In 2011, we used Accidents of Style as one of our texts. $14.99.įor many years, I have taught an enjoyable and stimulating class at Denver Seminary called Writing for Publication.

Denver Journal Book Review by Denver Seminary Professor Douglas GroothuisĬharles Harrington Elster, The Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly.

Elster online 2013