Language Quote by William D. Dennison

“Since—and this is why it changed how I read the Bible—God chose to communicate in language, since language is always shaped by context, and…

— Scot McKnight

The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the…

— J. I. Packer

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

— Walter Lang

“The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.”

— Alexander Theroux

The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for…

— Troy Perry

“Following Vos, Van Til places epistemology where it truly belongs, within the eschatological status of history: either one is a member of the kingdom…

— William D. Dennison

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture,…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“The New Testament’s vision of Christian behavior has to do, not with struggling to keep a bunch of ancient and apparently arbitrary rules, nor…

— N.T. Wright

“The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.”

— Elton Trueblood

“These languages were not like modern globalized ones, serving mainly to convey information in explicit and interchangeable forms-- but with a dimension called 'style'…

— Sarah Ruden

“Language is the element of definition, the defining and descriptive incantation. It puts the coin between our teeth. It whistles the boat up. It…

— Charles Wright

“Biblical Hebrew is not a language in the full sense of the word but merely a 'fragment of language'.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos