Happy 87th Birthday to Author, Theologian, and Philosopher, Dr. John M. Frame
The young John Frame teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia
John Frame teaching at Reformed Seminary in Orlando in his later years.
Dr. John M. Frame has distinguished himself as a prolific author and one of America’s foremost theologians and philosophers—significantly shaping the thought of Evangelicalism today.
Commenting on the continuation of protestant reformation theology since the time of Martin Luther and John Calvin, J. I. Packer writes in his foreword to Frame’s Systematic Theology:
"Three parts of the world have since made major contributions to the Reformed heritage, each engendering its own conflicts and loyalties:
England saw the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Puritan development, from William Perkins to John Owen, exploring life in Christ in and through the Holy Spirit;
nineteenth-century Holland produced the Kuyperian theology of human and Christian culture within a Reformed frame;
and the twentieth-century witnessed, within the conservative Presbyterian world, the ongoing quest for Reformed methodological authenticity, in which B. B, Warfield, Geerhardus Vos, J. Gresham Machen, and Cornelius Van Til are, by common consent, the leading names. I should like to think that tomorrow’s Reformed leaders will add John Frame’s name to that list; I believe they should."
Within the conservative Presbyterian world, the ongoing quest for Reformed methodological authenticity, in which B. B, Warfield, Geerhardus Vos, J. Gresham Machen, and Cornelius Van Til are, by common consent, the leading names.
I should like to think that tomorrow’s Reformed leaders will add John Frame’s name to that list; I believe they should."
–Dr. J. I. Packer
After 49 years of distinguished service as a seminary professor at three seminaries, Dr. John Frame retired in 2017. But his influential writing ministry continues today. Although widely known and deeply respected in church leadership and academic circles for decades, his works are now, finally, becoming well known to the general public.
The Applied Theology Project
Dr. Frame and Dr. Childers doing the first recordings for the Applied Theology Project in 2016.
Since 2016, John Frame and Steve Childers have been in collaboration on the Applied Theology Project. The mission of the Applied Theology Project is to provide accessible, affordable, seminary-level courses to underserved church leaders in their language and adapted to their culture wherever they live and serve.
The vision for the Applied Theology Project is to use the latest advances in educational technology to help bring all the loci of Systematic Theology to the millions of church leaders, especially in the developing world, who have no access or cannot afford high quality traditional seminary education.
– John Frame
Frame and Childers have collaborated on multiple books and courses in the Applied Theology Project series, designed to equip church leaders with biblically grounded, practical theology for real-life ministry.
Preview the Courses:
Applied Theology I Collection (3 Courses)
https://courses.pathwaylearning.org/library/applied-theology-i-collection-3-courses-169849/about/Applied Theology II Collection: Faith, Hope, and Love Trilogy (3 Courses)
https://courses.pathwaylearning.org/library/applied-theology-ii-collection-faith-hope-love-trilogy-3-courses-196650/about/
