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More magic from Vanhoozer
Posted by: Ros on: February 16, 2009
It is tempting to reduce the communicative act to its propositional content alone. Yet such an identification of divine discourse with propositional content is too hasty and reductionist, for it omits two other important aspects of the communicative action, namely, the illocutionary (what is done) and perlocutionary (what is effected). To repeat: what is authoritative [...]
The Drama of Doctrine
Posted by: Ros on: February 14, 2009
I’ve skimmed bits of this in the past but I’m trying to read it properly now and I’d forgotten just how good it is. Here are some things that have particularly struck me in the last couple of days: Employing the gospel as its primary, though not exclusive, resource for dealing with life’s most persistent [...]
Confessionalism
Posted by: Ros on: February 12, 2009
- In: bible | confessionalism | theology
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One of the things that I was most shocked by during my time in the US was the prevalence of a certain kind of confessionalism (among some, but certainly not all or most of the people I met) which I had not previously encountered in the UK (which is not to say that it doesn’t [...]
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