Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Speech Act Theory and Scripture

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• I. Speech Act Theory: An Introduction and Summary 
• Austin’s analysis of an utterance
• The locution / illocution distinction
• Performatives
• Searle’s taxonomy of illocutionary acts
• (1) Assertives
• (2) Directives
• (3) Commissives
• (4) Expressives
• (5) Declaratives
• (6) Assertive Declaratives
• The illocution / perlocution discussion 
• Felicity conditions, misfires and abuses
• Written Texts as Speech Acts
• II. Speech Act Theory and Scripture: A Summary and Evaluation 
• The usefulness of speech act theory in biblical hermeneutics
• An extra-biblical category or a biblical view of language?
• Speech Act and Liturgy
• The contribution of speech act theory to the doctrine of Scripture
• Words and deeds of God
• Objective and Subjective Revelation
• The Propositional and the Personal
• The Personal Presence of God by his word
• Self-involvement and transformative reading 
• God’s efficacious word
• The Bible as God’s covenant promise
• A Trinitarian speech act account of revelation 
• Conclusions
• Endnotes