Vern Poythress

Vern Sheridan Poythress

Born	1946 Madera, California
Residence	United States
Theological work
Era	Contemporary
Tradition or movement	Calvinist, Van Tillian presuppositionalist
Main interests	Philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, linguistics, hermeneutics, New Testament
Notable ideas	Multiperspectivalism, scientific law as a form of the word of God, foundation for ontology and epistemology in the Trinity

Vern Sheridan Poythress (born 1946) is a Calvinist philosopher, theologian, and New Testament scholar.

Poythress lived on his family farm in Madera, California until he was five years old and later moved with his family to Fresno, California.

He earned a B.S. in Mathematics from California Institute of Technology (1966) in three years as the valedictorian of his class, and was Putnam fellow in 1964. In 1970, he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University. He studied linguistics and Bible translation at the Summer Institute of Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma in 1971 and 1972, and he enrolled at Westminster Theological Seminary, earning an M.Div. (1974) and a Th.M. in apologetics (1974). He then received an M.Litt. in New Testament from Clare College, Cambridge (1977) and a Th.D. in New Testament from the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa (1981).