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

Speech Acts, Biblical Texts and the Sufficiency of Scripture

by Timothy Ward

  • Hardback
  • 344 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.4 cm

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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 post modernity'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 analyzing 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, Bakhtin, Fowl, Wolterstorff, Vanhoozer, Childs, and Warfield. Building especially on descriptions of language as action, "Word and Supplement" critically reconstructs 'the sufficiency of Scripture' as both a concept and a doctrine which must remain central to Christian theology and practice.
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  • Author

    Timothy Ward

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    OUP Oxford

  • Published

    August 2002

  • Weight

    500g

  • Page Count

    344

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199244386

  • ISBN-10

    0199244383

  • Eden Code

    3782408

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