John Frame (philosopher)
| John M. Frame | |
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| Born |
April 8, 1939 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Residence | US |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Theologian, author |
| Years active | 1970– |
| Notable work | Theology of Lordship series, Van Til: The Theologian, Introduction to Presuppositional Apologetics |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Grace |
| Children | Justin, John |
| Theological work | |
| Era | Late 20th and early 21st centuries |
| Language | English |
| Tradition or movement | Calvinism, Van Tillian, presuppositionalist |
| Main interests | Epistemology, presuppositional apologetics, ethics, systematic theology, Christian worship |
| Notable ideas | Multiperspectivalism |
John M. Frame (born April 8, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American Christian philosopher and Calvinist theologian especially noted for his work in epistemology and presuppositional apologetics, systematic theology, and ethics. He is one of the foremost interpreters and critics of the thought of Cornelius Van Til.
Frame became a Christian at the age of 13 through the ministry of Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church. He matriculated at Princeton University where he was involved in the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship and Westerly Road Church. The PEF and Westerly Road had a profound impact on forming Frame's faith and theology. He says of their impact:
I owe much to PEF... Fullerton and PEF cared deeply about people, spending hours in mutual prayer, exhortation, counseling, gospel witness. I never experienced that depth of fellowship in any Reformed church or institution... So I am not much impressed by people who want to set up an adversary relation between "Reformed" and "evangelical." Today, Reformed writers often disparage evangelical ministries as circuses, as clubs that will do anything at all to gain members, who pander to the basest lusts of modern culture. That was not true of PEF, or of Westerly Road Church... PEF would never have imagined the effect their ministry had on me: they turned me into a Reformed ecumenist!"
Frame received degrees from Princeton University (A.B.), Westminster Theological Seminary (BD), Yale University (AM and M.Phil., and began work on a doctoral dissertation), and Belhaven College (honorary DD). He has served on the faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary and was a founding faculty member of their California campus, and as of 2007[update] he holds the JD Trimble Chair of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America.
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