The Reshaped Mind

Searle, the Biblical Writers, and Christ's Blood
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18840-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 104, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

A number of biblical scholars and theologians have had interest in speech act theory ever since J.L. Austin (1911–1960) outlined how a speaker can perform actions with words. John R. Searle has made a significant contribution to speech act theory after Austin by rooting his philosophy of language in the philosophy of mind; however, Searle’s categories remain largely under or misrepresented in theological circles. In this book, the author works exclusively with Searle’s categories to examine five NT texts on the ‘blood-of-Christ’ motif (Rom 3:25; Heb 9:12; John 6:52–59; Rev 1:5b–6; Rev 7:13–14). The main result is a broader understanding of Christ’s blood in a literal sense rather than simply as a metaphor for his death.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams-Tinajero, Lace Marie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One. Understanding Searle’s Philosophies of Language and Mind
Introduction
Wittgenstein and Austin
Wittgenstein’sTheory of Language
Austin’sTheory of Language
Performative Statements
The Performative-Constative Dichotomy
Illocutionary Acts and Illocutionary Force
Austin’sTheory about Direction of Fit
Searle’s Philosophies of Language andMind
Searle and the Philosophy of Language
A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts
Indirect Speech Acts and Metaphorical
Assertions
Performatives
Types of Speech Acts
Searle and the Philosophy of Mind
The Structure of Intentionality
Intentionality-with-a-t and Intensionality-with-an-s
Other ContributionsMade to Speech ActTheory
Grice
Bach and Harnish
Recanati
Motsch
Hornsby
Vanderveken
Moulin and Rousseau
Summary
Chapter Two. Speech ActTheory, Scripture, and Theology
Introduction
Emerging Interest in Austin’s Philosophy of Language
Michalson and Types of Statements
Evans and Self-Involvement
Funk and Language-Event
High, Robinson, Martinich, and McClendon and Smith
Thiselton and Philosophical Categories
Biblical Scholars andTheologians: Current Trends in Employing Speech ActTheory
Combining Several Speech Act Theories: Young and Botha
Young
Botha
God Speaking:Wolterstorff and Vanhoozer
Wolterstorff
Vanhoozer
A Hermeneutic of Self-Involvement: Neufeld, Thiselton, Briggs, and Adams
Neufeld
Thiselton
Briggs
Adams
Summary
ChapterThree. Single-Level Speech Acts:The Effects of Christ’s Blood in Rom and Heb Introduction
Paul and Rom
Paul theWriter
Paul’s Illocutionary Act and Intentional States
Paul’s Assertive Act
Paul’s Belief andHope
Paul’s Intentional Action
Paul’s Metaphorical Assertion, Network, and
Background
Paul’sMetaphorical Assertion
contents ix
Paul’s Network
Paul’s Background
Paul’s Assessors at Rome
The Author of Hebrews and Heb
TheWriter of Hebrews
The Author’s Illocutionary Act and Intentional States
The Author’s Assertive Act
The Author’s Belief andHope
The Author’s Intentional Action
The Author’s Metaphorical Assertion, Network, and
Background
The Author’sMetaphorical Assertion
The Author’s Network and Background
The Hebrews as Assessors
Summary
Chapter Four. Multi-Level Speech Acts:The Effects of Christ’s
Blood in John
Introduction
John, the Judeans, and Jesus in John
John’s Illocutionary Acts and Intentional States in
John
John’s Assertives
John’s Belief andHope
John’s Intentional Action
John’s Network and Background
The Judeans’ Illocutionary Act and Intentional (with
t) States and John’s Report and Intensional (with s)
States in John
The Judeans’ Question and John’s Report
The Judeans’ Intentional (with t) States of
Desire and Disbelief and John’s Intensional
(with s) State of Belief
The Judeans’ Intentional Action
The Judeans’ Network and Background
Jesus’ Illocutionary Acts and Intentional (with t)
States and John’s Report and Intensional (with s)
States in John
Jesus’ Direct Assertives and John’s Report
Jesus’ Intentional (with t) States of Belief and
Hope and John’s Intensional (with s) State of
Belief Jesus’ Indirect Directives and Intentional
State of Desire
Jesus’ Indirect Commissives and Intentional
State of Intention
Jesus’ Intentional Action
Jesus’ Metaphorical Assertion, Network, and
Background
The Judeans as Jesus’ Assessors
John and Rev John and the Elder in Rev
John and Rev
John as God’s Slave, Prophet, and Seer
John’s Assertive and Expressive Acts
John’s Belief andHope
John’s Intentional Action
John’s Metaphorical Assertion, Network, and
Background
John’s Assessors, the Seven Churches in Asia
Minor
John and the Elder in Rev
John’s Illocutionary Acts and Intentional
The Elder’s Illocutionary Acts and
Intentional (with t) States and John’s Reports
and Intensional (with s) States in Rev
Summary
Chapter Five. Searle’s Philosophies and the Motif of Christ’s Blood:

Some Proposals
General Observations
Summary and Synthesis:The Five Selected Texts on Christ’s
Blood
Summary and Synthesis: Christ’s Blood in the NT and N

Über Autor(innen)

Lace Marie Williams-Tinajero, Ph.D. (2008) in Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, has published on Christian unity in the Lord's Supper, and is currently researching how language shapes religious communities.