knowledge of god's existence
- Created by: helenalr
- Created on: 01-11-22 15:16
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- knowledge of god
- natural knowledge/ theology
- innate knowledge
- calvin: sensus divinitatis
- semen religion: we were all seminally present in adam at the time of the fall and OG sin so we all have sin/ knowledge of god
- natural sense of the divine and god that is accessible to everyone
- cicero: universal consent
- everyone has morals within them as we were created in the image of god - imago dei (genesis)
- innate sense of morality: CS Lewis, Butler, Newman
- we have feelings of guilt when we do something wrong
- innate sense of morality: CS Lewis, Butler, Newman
- epistemic distance for Calvin: god makes himself impossible to ignore, humans deliberately choose to ignore him
- calvin: sensus divinitatis
- knowledge from the world, etc
- sunsets, aurora borealis, etc provoke feelings of awe and wonder which are similar to feelings towards God
- Calvin: beauty of the world is a "mirror" of god - order reflects god
- nature is not god itself, but it is a way in which we can learn about him
- "how majestic is your name in all the earth" psalms
- creation shows "his eternal power and divine nature"
- innate knowledge
- revealed knowledge
- immediate
- god makes himself directly known to people
- Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, everyone who met Jesus
- religious experiences
- Paul to Saul: persecuted Christians but then had a REX and lost his sight, then converted Christianity and changed his name to symbolise being "reborn"
- Christians and non-christians?
- the bible for some is considered the word of god so is immediate
- god makes himself directly known to people
- mediate
- indirect knowledge of god
- people who listened to Moses talk about god
- the bible
- Jesus!
- indirect knowledge of god
- needed to gain a fuller knowledge of god as human experience and reason is limited
- faith
- belief held despite lack of empirical evidence or in opposition to evidence/ reason
- aquinas: distinction between faith and scientia, we cannot have knowledge and faith of the same thing
- faith is also different from opinion because people can change their opinions, faith is more solid and there is less doubt
- Catholic Church teaches that faith and reason should be used together as both were given to us by god
- may argue that is it impossible to have faith without knowledge first
- distinction in Johns gospel about what we know and what we believe
- may argue that is it impossible to have faith without knowledge first
- gods grace
- means we are able to have knowledge of god through faith
- the Holy Spirit
- immediate
- natural knowledge/ theology
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