Barr, James. The Semantics of Biblical Language. London: Oxford University Press, 1961. The critical application of twentieth-century semantics to biblical interpretation.
Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1936-77.
Berkhof, Louis. Systematic Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1939.
Berkouwer, G. C. Faith and Sanctification. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952.
________. The Providence of God. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952.
Black, Max. Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1962.
Carson, D. A. Exegetical Fallacies. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1984.
De Bono, Edward. Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. On trying new perspectives as a means of creativity, see especially pp. 31-45.
Dooyeweerd, Herman. A New Critique of Theoretical Thought. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1969.
Frame, John M. "The Doctrine of the Christian life." Parts 1,2. Philadelphia: Westminster Theological Seminary, 1979. Classroom syllabus. One of the fullest expressions of symphonic theology applied to normative, existential, and situational perspectives on ethics and applied to the Ten Commandments as perspectives.
________. "The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God." Westminster Theological Seminary, 1983. Classroom syllabus. A treatment of symphonic theology in the area of epistemology.
Gaffin, Richard B., Jr. "Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology." In The New Testament Student and Theology, vol. 3, ed. John H. Skilton, 32-50. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1976. Reprinted from Westminster Theological Journal 38 (1975-76): 281-99.
Gibson, Arthur. Biblical Semantic Logic. New York: St. Martin's, 1981. An expansion of Barr, Semantics of Biblical Language.
Gordon, William J. J. Synectics: The Development of Creative Capacity. New York: Harper & Row, 1961. See especially pp. 34-56.
Helm, Paul. "Revealed Propositions and Timeless Truths." Religious Studies 8 (1972): 127-36.
Hesse, Mary. Models and Analogies in Science. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1966.
Hodge, Archibald A., and Warfield, Benjamin B. Inspiration. 1881. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979.
Hodge, Charles. Systematic Theology. 3 vols. 1871-73. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970.
Holmes, Arthur F. Christian Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: An Essay in Philosophical Methodology. Nutley, NJ: Craig, 1969. A perspectival understanding of the task of philosophy, with affinities to my approach.
Hume, David. Of Miracles. Reprint. LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 1985.
Kant, Immanuel. Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone. Chicago and London: Open Court, 1934.
Kline, Morris. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Kuyper, Abraham. The Work of the Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1941.
Lakatos, Imre. Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery. Ed. John Worrall and Elie Zahar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Lyons, John. Semantics. 2 vols. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. The standard recent work in the field of semantics.
Pepper, Stephen. World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.
Pike, Kenneth L. "Here We Stand--Creative Observers of Language." Approches du langage: colloque interdisciplinaire, Publications de la Sorbonne, Serie "Etudes" 16 (1980): 9-45.
________. Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior. 2d ed. The Hague: Mouton, 1967.
________. Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. An elementary introduction to tagmemics and perspectives.
________. "Toward the Development of Tagmemic Postulates." In Tagmemics, vol. 2: Theoretical Discussion, ed. Ruth M. Brend and Kenneth L. Pike, 91-127. The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1976.
Pike, Kenneth L., and Pike, Evelyn G. Grammatical Analysis. Dallas, Tex.: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington, 1977.
Polanyi, Michael. Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.
________. Science, Faith and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.
________. The Tacit Dimension. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.
Poythress, Vern S. "Adequacy of Language and Accommodation," in Hermeneutics, Inerrancy, and the Bible, ed. Earl D. Radmacher and Robert D. Preus, 349-76. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984.
________. "Analysing a Biblical Text: Some Important Linguistic Distinctions." Scottish Journal of Theology 32 (1979): 113-37. Applications of some linguistic perspectives to biblical meaning; continued in "Analysing a Biblical Text: What Are We After?"
________. "Analysing a Biblical Text: What Are We Afer?" Scottish Journal of Theology 32 (1979): 319-31.
________. "A Framework for Discourse Analysis: The Components of a Discourse, from a Tagmemic Viewpoint." Semiotica 38, no. 3/4 (1982): 277-98. Working out perspectives in the area of language and communication; continued in "Hierarchy in Discourse Analysis."
________. "Hierarchy in Discourse Analysis: A Revision of Tagmemics." Semiotica 40, no. 1/2 (1982): 107-37.
________. "Mathematics as Rhyme." Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 35 (1983): 196-203.
________. Method and Discovery in Science and Theology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, forthcoming. Perspectives are related to Thomas S. Kuhn's work in philosophy of science.
________. "Newton's Laws as Allegory." Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 35 (1983): 156-61.
________. Philosophy, Science and the Sovereignty of God. Nutley, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1976. An earlier expression of multiple perspectives.
________. "Science as Allegory." Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 35 (1983): 65-71. Developing a perspective on science; continued in "Newton's Laws as Allegory" and "Mathematics as Rhyme."
________. Understanding Dispensationalists. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, forthcoming. Symphonic method applied to the dispute between dispensationalists and covenant theologians.
Robinson, Richard. Definition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954.
Rorty, Richard. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Silva, Moises. Biblical Words and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Lexical Semantics. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1983. An expansion of Barr, Semantics of Biblical Language, with special attention to positive principles of lexicography.
Stoker, Hendrik Gerhardus. Die wysbegeerte van die skeppingsidee: of grondbeginsels van 'n Kalvinistiese wysbegeerte. Pretoria: J. H. de Bussy, 1933.
Thiselton, Anthony. "Semantics and New Testament Interpretation." In New Testament Interpretation, ed. I. Howard Marshall, 75-104. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977. A valuable survey.
________. The Two Horizons: New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophical Description with Special Reference to Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980. The best discussion available of the bearing of philosophical hermeneutics on theology.
Ullmann, Stephen. Semantics: An Introduction to the Science of Meaning. Oxford: Blackwell, 1964.
van Riessen, Hendrik. Wijsbegeerte. Kampen: Kok, 1970.
Van Til, Cornelius. Christian Theistic Ethics. Philadelphia: den Dulk Foundation, 1971. The beginning point for normative, existential, and situational perspectives on ethics. Christian ethics is distinctive in norms, motives, and goals.
________. Christian-Theistic Evidences. Nutley, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1976.
________. A Christian Theory of Knowledge. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1969.
________. The Defense of the Faith. 2d ed. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1963.
________. An Introduction to Systematic Theology. Phillipsþburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1974. Valuable for its robust view of the relation of general revelation and special revelation.
________. Why I Believe in God. Philadelphia: Westminster Theological Seminary, 1976. One of the most sociologically oriented of Van Til's many discussions of presuppositions. As such, this work is a useful starting point for considering the role of models and conceptual frameworks, even though models are less deeply rooted than the presuppositions with which Van Til is concerned.
Vos, Geerhardus. Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1966.
________. "The Idea of Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Theological Discipline." In Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos, ed. Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., 3-24. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyteriand and Reformed, 1980.
Warfield, Benjamin B. The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible. 1927 and 1948. Reprint. Ed. Samuel G. Craig. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1967.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. 3d ed. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
________. Preliminary Studies for the "Philosophical Investigations," Generally Known as the Blue and Brown Books. New York: Harper, 1958.