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Regardless of whether one agrees with the content of Wolterstorff's Divine Discourse, it is clear that it is a ground-breaking and philosophically powerful piece. In this book, based on his 1993 Wilde Lectures at Oxford, Wolterstorff brings together themes from speech act theory, Biblical interpretation, religious epistemology, theology and philosophical hermeneutics. At the intersection of these fields lies a claim Wolterstorff sees as fundamental to Judaism, Christianity and Islam (p. 8): the claim that God speaks. More specifically, the claim that centers Wolterstorff's book is that God performs illocutionary acts. Divine Discourse is devoted to a defense of this claim. Wolterstorff's defense involves three projects. First, he seeks to establish that God, despite lacking a physical body, can literally be said to speak; that is, it is logically possible for God to speak. Second, he hopes to show that given his analysis of what it is to speak, God is in fact the kind of being who can speak. Finally, he argues that the claim that God speaks is plausible. As a corollary to these projects, Wolterstorff also provides some guidance for interpreting scripture for divine speech. Due to the immense number of research areas Wolterstorff brings together, to do full justice to his book would require treating it from varied perspectives. I do not pretend to be able to do so. Given my own interests and background, I will be evaluating Wolterstorff's book primarily as a piece of religious epistemology. I hope to be as just as possible, though recognizing that there is far more to be said than can be said here.

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Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x + 326 pp.