The canonical texts and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
claim that God speaks, but philosophers usually mistakenly treat such
speech as revelation. Wolterstorff argues that contemporary
speech-action theory offers a fascinating approach to the claim. He
develops an innovative theory of interpretation along the way opposing
the current near-consensus of Ricoeur and Derrida that there is
something wrong-headed about interpreting a text to find out what its
author said.