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Divine discourse : philosophical reflections on the claim that God speaks /

"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 measu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wolterstorff, Nicholas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.