Foundations - Knowledge of Gods existence
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- Created on: 20-03-18 13:54
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- Foundations
- Natural Theology
- Calvin
- There is an innate seed of God's nature within us.
- Epistemic distance created
- There is an innate seed of God's nature within us.
- Aquinas
- Our duty to fulfil our purpose that has been given by God
- Natural Law
- Our duty to fulfil our purpose that has been given by God
- Barth
- Rejection
- Only self revelation of God alone
- God cannot be known through the works of others
- Incapable of working out right and wrong
- Rejection
- Cicero
- all human societies have an innate sense of the divine
- Calvin
- Revealed Knowledge
- Aquinas
- Special Revelation
- specific and special usually revealed to a prophet.
- Special Revelation
- Calvin
- Sin stops us being able to gain natural knowledge
- Don't need as much knowledge as you do for Natural Theology
- Through scripture and God revealing himself to us straight away
- Aquinas
- Romans 1:18 & ACTS 17:16-34
- "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness"
- Inductively - a posterori
- through the 5 senses
- Deductively - a prior
- through human reason and logic
- Natural Theology
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