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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…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1995Cambridge University Press · 326 pages · 9780521475396
ChristianityDirect discourse in the BibleLanguage and languagesReligious aspectsSpeech acts (Linguistics)Word of God (Theology)Word of God (Christian theology)Discours direct dans la Bible