Promise and Prayer
Anthony C. Thiselton
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Beschreibung
In the Bible, promise and prayer are essential and connected components of the inter-personal relationship between God and his people. And both promise and prayer are kinds of action undertaken by means of speaking, utterances philosophers refer to as speech acts. In the case of promises this is clear: they constitute firm commitments to act in certain ways under appropriate conditions. This book considers biblical examples of divine promise, from both Old and New Testaments. All speech acts depend upon institutional facts, and Thiselton argues that in the biblical writings Divine promises are based on the prior institution of God's covenant. That same covenant forms the institutional context of prayer. Thiselton shows how different kinds of prayer--blessing, thanksgiving and praise, petition and intercession--count as speech acts in different ways and to different degrees.
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Philosophy, The marvel of God’s binding himself through making promises, blessing, Religious aspects, Christian Theology, Covenants, Promise and Prayer, Prayer and prayerbooks, Christianity, Biblical teaching, thanksgiving, Word of God (Christian theology), examples of God’s promises in the Old and New Testaments, Christian life and practice, petition and intercession in the biblical writings, the basis of the speech-act of promise in the institution of the covenant, Theology, Christian Living, Philosophy of religion, What kind of prayer can constitute genuine speech acts?Examples of worship, Language and languages, Speech acts (Linguistics), Anthony C. Thiselton, confession, Prayer