Speaks.3 He wants speech act theory to illuminate the claim that the Bible is the Word of God and that the Bible becomes the Word of God again and again in various times and places. When we read the Bible or hear it proclaimed in preaching, we are addressed and, above and beyond any human speaker or writer who may be involved, it is God by whom we are addressed. Wolterstorff seeks to expound and defend a hermeneutics of “authorial discourse interpretation” that will involve the abandonment of hermeneutical