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God Speak

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1998

MICHAEL LEVINE
MICHAEL LEVINE
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Australia, Nedland, Western Australia 6907
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Abstract

Nicholas Wolterstorff has recently defended the acceptability of the belief that God speaks and examined various implications of such a belief. This paper examines several of his major hermeneutical and epistemological thesis. Among the issues discussed are the following (i) I examine Wolterstorff's claim to ‘honour’ the results of biblical criticism, and argue that excavative biblical scholarship challenges the plausibility of various crucial assumptions necessary for believing authorial-discourse interpretation of the Bible to be possible. (ii) I dispute his peculiar view that God's speech should not be included under the rubric of divine revelation. (iii) Contrary to Wolterstorff I claim that miracles would have to play an essential role in divine discourse. (iv) I critically examine and reject his claim that – in the case he describes – ‘we are entitled’ to believe God is speaking.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 1998 , pp. 1 - 16
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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