Divine Discourse Paperback: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks - Softcover

Wolterstorff, Nicholas

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ISBN 10: 0521475570 ISBN 13: 9780521475570

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1995

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Wolterstorff reflects on Judaic, Christian, and Islamic texts and traditions that claim God speaks, from contemporary speech-action theory. His innovative theory of interpretation opposes the near-consensus of Ricoeur and Derrida. He concludes some of us are entitled to believe that God has spoken.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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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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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521475570
• ISBN 13: 9780521475570
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338
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