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Themelios: Volume 26, No. 2, Spring 2001 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Themelios is an international evangelical theological journal that expounds and defends the historic Christian faith. Its primary audience is theological students and pastors, though scholars read it as well. It was formerly a print journal operated by RTSF/UCCF in the United Kingdom, and it became a digital journal operated by The Gospel Coalition in 2008. The new editorial team, led by D.A....

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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