Has God Said? Scripture, the Word of God, and the Crisis of Theological Authority (Biblia.com)

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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...

the basic unit of meaning. We move from noises in the air or marks on paper to meaning only by assuming that these were produced by beings using language to relate to others. Using language requires observing socially agreed-upon rules. Hence, a theory of language is part of a theory of action. In contrast to Wittgenstein, who believed there were countless ways of using language, Searle presents a typology of five speech acts, five things we do with language: we tell people how things are, we try to

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