Justin Taylor, of Reformation21 fame, writes:

Here are Poythress’s 12 Maxims for Symphonic Theology. Without explanation, some will doubtless come across as cryptic. If that’s the case, you’ll just have to read the book!

Indeed you will. Here it is.

1. PERSPECTIVES IN EVERYDAY LIFE
2. PERSPECTIVES IN THE BIBLE
3. EXAMPLES OF USEFUL BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES
4. PERSPECTIVES IN THEOLOGY
5. IN DEFENSE OF SYMPHONIC THEOLOGY
6. WORDS AND PRECISION
7. TWELVE MAXIMS OF SYMPHONIC THEOLOGY

While someone once confidently assured me, without argument, that Frame and Poythress were guilty of “relativism” and “pluralism” (if you want to see the tremors of the present earthquake over the so-called “federal vision” just look in the appendices of Frame’s The Doctrine of God and look at all the attacks he had to defend himself from), the fact is that Poythress and Frame simply used the accomplishments of the Reformed Heritage to produce a metatheology that provides the Church with great reasources for dealing with post-modernism (though that is by no means the only advantage of their great work). It is sad this book is not more widely read.