Divine discourse
philosophical reflections on the claim that God speaks
By Nicholas Wolterstorff
"Divine discourse" is published by Cambridge University Press in 1995 - Cambridge [England], it has 326 pages and the language of the book is English.
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- Title: Divine discourse
- Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 326
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: 1995
- Publish Location: Cambridge [England]
“Divine discourse” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Christianity - Direct discourse in the Bible - Language and languages - Religious aspects - Religious aspects of Language and languages - Religious aspects of Speech acts (Linguistics) - Speech acts (Linguistics) - Word of God (Theology) - Word of God (Christian theology) - Discours direct dans la Bible - Sprechakt - Aspect religieux - Openbaring - Taalhandelingen - Parole de Dieu (Théologie) - Langage et langues - Godsbegrip - Actes de parole - Hermeneutiek - Woord Gods - Christianisme - Doctrinal Theology - Philosophie - Gott - Word (theology) - Language and languages, religious aspects
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: x, 326 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL1116185M - OL3518748W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 31707682
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 94042264
- ISBN-10: 0521475392 - 0521475570
- All ISBNs: 0521475392 - 0521475570
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Divine discourse comprises Nicholas Wolterstorff's philosophical reflections on the claim that God speaks. This claim figures large in the canonical texts and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but there has been remarkably little philosophical reflection on it, in good measure (so Professor Wolterstorff argues) because philosophers have mistakenly assimilated divine speech to divine revelation. He embraces contemporary speech-action theory as his basic approach to language; and after expanding the theory beyond its usual applications, concludes that the claim that God performs illocutionary actions is coherent and entails no obvious falsehoods. Moving on to issues of interpretation, he considers how one would interpret a text if one wanted to find out what God was saying thereby. Prominent features of this part of the discussion are his defense, against Ricoeur and Derrida, of the legitimacy of interpreting a text to find out what its author said, and his analysis of the double hermeneutic involved when the discourse of one person is appropriated into the discourse of another person. The book closes with a discussion of the epistemological question of whether we are entitled to believe that God speaks.
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