Word and Supplement Speech Acts, Biblical Texts, and the Sufficiency of Scripture

Name: Word and Supplement Speech Acts, Biblical Texts, and the Sufficiency of Scripture
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ISBN: 9780199244386

ISBN-10: 0199244383

ISBN-13: 9780199244386

Edition: 2002

Authors: Timothy Ward

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What are Christians saying when they call the Bible the Word of God? How is that statement to be understood in relation to postmodernity's suspicion of meaning? Word and Supplement tackles these questions by bringing post-modern theory into critical dialogue with the often-neglected doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture. The notion of the 'sufficiency' of a text, and the contrasting idea of the 'supplement(s)' which texts carry with them, together provide a sharp critical tool for analysing a variety of contemporary hermeneutical and doctrinal positions. Brought into this discussion are Derrida, from whom the idea of 'supplement' is borrowed, Barth, Frei, Fish, Hirsch, Hauerwas, Gadamer,…

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List price: $250.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/3/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 342
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Timothy Ward is Team Vicar at Holy Trinity Church, Hinckley, England. He is the author of Word and Supplement: Speech Acts, Biblical Texts and the Sufficiency of Scripture (OUP), and a contributor to The Trustworthiness of God (Apollos), The Word Became Flesh (Paternoste), Reformed Theology In Contemporary Perspective (Rutherford House) and Spirit of Truth and Power (Rutherford House).




Introduction



The Development and Decline of the Sufficiency of Scripture


The Patristic Period


The Middle Ages


The Reformation


The Post-Reformation Period


The Period of Decline



Scripture and the Sufficiency of Divine Speech


The Act of Speech


Speech Act Theory, Divine Speech, and Scripture: The Contribution of Nicholas Wolterstorff


Karl Barth on Scripture as the Word of God


Positive Proposal: Scripture as the Speech Act of God



Scripture and the Sufficiency of the Text


The Unsupplemented Text


Texts and Authors


Texts and Readers


Towards a Conception of Scripture as the Sufficient Speech Act of God



The Scriptures and the Sufficiency of the Canon


Supplementing One Text with Another: The Canon and Intertextuality


The Sufficiency of the Canonical Form: The Hermeneutics of B. S. Childs


Supplementing Scripture with Divine Action: The Canon and Inspiration



Conclusion


Bibliography


Index