in the creation (Rom 1). “The peculiarity of the biblical vision is lost if one allows only that God is revealed, denying that he speaks; or if one mistakenly interprets the claim that God speaks as being the same as the claim that God is revealed.”15 Wolterstorff contends that God produced sounds having meaning not by uttering words, that is, not by performing a language-act, but by a “speech-act” that need not involve the use of words. When the biblical writers “talked of God’s speaking, what they
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