Divine discourse: philosophical reflections on the claim that God speaks
Prominent in the canonical texts and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is the claim that God speaks. Nicholas Wolterstorff argues that contemporary speech-action theory, when appropriately expanded, offers us a fascinating way of interpreting this claim and showing its intelligibility....
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
1995.
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| In: | Year: 1995 |
| Reviews: | REVIEWS (1996) (Wiles, Maurice F., 1923 - 2005)
Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim That God Speaks. Nicholas Wolterstorff (1998) (Yandell, Keith E.) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Revelation
/ Philosophy
B God / Word / Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Speech acts (Linguistics) ; Religious aspects ; Christianity
B Speech acts (Linguistics) Religious aspects Christianity B Word of God (Christian theology) |
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| Summary: | Prominent in the canonical texts and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is the claim that God speaks. Nicholas Wolterstorff argues that contemporary speech-action theory, when appropriately expanded, offers us a fascinating way of interpreting this claim and showing its intelligibility. He develops an innovative theory of double-hermeneutics - along the way opposing the current near-consensus led by Ricoeur and Derrida that there is something wrong-headed about interpreting a text to find out what its author said. Wolterstorff argues that at least some of us are entitled to believe that God has spoken. Philosophers have never before, in any sustained fashion, reflected on these matters, mainly because they have mistakenly treated speech as revelation. Preface -- 1. Locating our topic -- 2. Speaking is not revealing -- 3. The many modes of discourse -- 4. Divine discourse in the hands of theologians -- 5. What it is to speak -- 6. Could God have and acquire the rights and duties of a speaker? -- 7. Can God cause the events generative of discourse? -- 8. In defense of authorial-discourse interpretation: contra Ricoeur -- 9. In defense of authorial-discourse interpretation: contra Derrida -- 10. Performance interpretation -- 11. Interpreting the mediating human discourse: the first hermeneutic --12. Interpreting for the mediated divine discourse: the second hermeneutic --13. Has Scripture become a wax nose? -- 14. The illocutionary stance of Biblical narrative --15. Are we entitled? --16. Historical and theological afterword -- Notes -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 0511598076 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511598074 |