As with a particular Bible passage, so the illocutionary force of the Lord’s Supper results from a combination of the meaning and intentions of God and the form he ‘incarnates’ his authoritative voice and presence.29 As Vanhoozer claims ‘while the proponents of propositional revelation have cherished the (p) of the speech-act F(p)’30 so we maintain that the reduction of the Lord’s Supper to a mere memorial underplays the F aspect of the sacramental action,31 John Searle proposed that we do five basic
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