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Has God Said? Scripture, the Word of God, and the Crisis of Theological Authority is unavailable, but you can change that!

Has God said? Has God actually spoken, declared himself and his purposes to us? Historically the Christian faith has affirmed God's redemptive, revelatory speaking as historical, contentful, redemptive, centrally in Jesus Christ and, under Christ and by the Spirit, in the text of Holy Scripture. But in the past three centuries developments in Western culture have created a crisis in relation to...

Theologians must do justice to the diverse uses of language—that is, to the different kinds of “speech acts”—in the Bible. But this is not all. One must also construe the model of God’s presence vis-à-vis the Bible. I submit that God is present in Scripture precisely as a communicative agent, its ultimate author. The agency behind the variety of communicative acts in the Bible then, must be ascribed not only to its human authors, but ultimately to God. Scripture contains a wide repertoire of what
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