I am trying to put on a workshop on divine revelation. I am sorry to say that other than Swinburne's _Revelation_ and Wolterstorff's _Divine Discourse_ I can't think of any major work by a philosopher on the nature of revelation. Of course, there may be some good philosophically-informed work by a theologian as well. Suggestions?
Bleg: Who writes on revelation?
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Paul Helm has a book titled "The Divine Revelation," though it's more philosophical theology.
Karl Barth devoted much of his 'Church Dogmatics' (mostly the first two volumes) to a study of revelation. So did T.F. Torrance - but it's scattered through all of his writings.
Sandy Menssen and Tom Sullivan have a book on it, which I think is quite good. They are my colleagues, but that's not WHY I think it is quite good ;)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Agnostic-Inquirer-Revelation-Philosophical/dp/0802803946/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351641490&sr=8-1&keywords=menssen+sullivan
Mitchell's response to Flew's Theology and Falsificationism?
Is William Abraham's Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation not specific enough for your interests?
I think William Abraham, a theologian at SMU, is a particularly excellent and unusually philosophically sensitive thinker in this area. I'm thinking in particular of his books Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology and Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation, but I know he has contributed other articles and talks on the subject as well.
http://www.smu.edu/Perkins/FacultyAcademics/DirectoryList/Abraham
Billy Abraham.
C Stephen Evans has written about it before. George Mavrodes published a pretty good book on the topic in 88. Messen and Sullivan (at U. of St. Thomas) have done some work together on the topic. William Abraham has a number of essays and books on the subject. I taught a course on this stuff once; I'll have to dig up my syllabus to see who I'm missing.
Paul has a book titled Divine Revelation, I think. I own it, but have yet to read it. If you happen to read it, let us know what you think.
I think there's work by William Abraham on this, and a book by Thomas Sullivan and Sandra Menssen. George Mavrodes has also written on it (I think). I don't know whether he's still active.
How about Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation by William J. Abraham?
The Idea of Revelation in Recent Thought is pretty good, but I forget who it's by.
Rea's second volume of his Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology will have a good collection of papers. You could also hit up Oliver Crisp. I'm sure he's full of good ideas.
Thanks for the suggestions, guys. In fact I used Billy's fine book for my Religious Epistemology class this semester. I suppose I should have put the emphasis on the word "nature". The sort of questions I'm I'm primarily interested in are about what could constitute a revelation by God, demarcation problems, how language could bear divine revelation. Billy's work is more epistemological--which is, more generally, my greater concern--but the more I think about it, the more he does address these questions, so I suppose it was just too close to me at the moment.
How about "Religion and Revelation" by Keith Ward?
John R T Lamont's Divine Faith (Ashgate, 2004) is mostly about the rationality of faith in a revelation, but it does have chapters on the existence and nature of divine speaking.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfiltered=1&field-keywords=&field-author=lamont&field-title=divine+faith&field-isbn=&field-publisher=&node=&field-p_n_condition-type=&field-feature_browse-bin=&field-subject=&field-language=&field-dateop=&field-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=relevanceexprank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=0&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.y=0
How about
Herman Bavinck's Philosophy of Religion (1908)
http://archive.org/details/philosophyrevel00bavigoog
Avery Dulles, "Modes of Revelation" or something like that. Probably not what you're looking for, but his bibliography may be helpful.
How about Samuel Fleischacker, Divine Teaching and the Way of the World?
Avery Dulles, Models of Revelation
Gabriel Fackre, The Doctrine of Revelation: A Narrative Interpretation
George Mavrodes' book, as mentioned by some in the comments, is also important, especially for the nature of revelation:
Revelation in Religious Belief
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/562_reg_print.html
I haven't read this yet (but it's on my list), but it looks like Evan Fales's _Divine Intervention_, especially chapter 8, may have something relevant to contribute to this topic.
Rea's anthology, mentioned above, http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Readings-Philosophical-Theology-Resurrection/dp/0199237484
A minor addition - William Paley has a bit to say about what would constitute a revelation by God (and the best mode for doing so) in the preface to Evidence of Christianity.
This book is also important:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Revelation-God-Israel-Norbert-Samuelson/dp/0521089492/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1352253335&sr=8-2
Because it hasn't been mentioned yet, but deserves a mention: Jorge Gracia, How Can We Know What God Means? An Interpretation of Revelation (Palgrave, 2001).