Knowledge Of God's Existence
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- Knowledge of God's Existence
- Natural Theology
- The innate sense of God
- Calvin and the Catechism
- God is innate or imprinted in human consciousness
- the Sensus Divinitatis - the seed of religion
- religious rituals are 'so universal that one may call man a religious being' CCC
- St Paul says that the desire to know the 'unknown God' is the quest of philosophers
- it is at least reasonable to believe in God as so many people believe in God or gods - Cicero
- the human sense of beauty and moral goodness are foundations for knowledge of God
- Natural Law is an innate knowledge of God
- Conscience as a God given faculty
- joint knowledge between us and God
- arguments for God's existence provide strong reasons to believe
- 'converging and convincing' CCC
- Calvin and the Catechism
- The Order of Creation
- duplex cognito domini - Calvin's 2 fold knowledge of God - Redeemer and Creator
- 'the heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament of his handiwork' Psalm 19:1
- Calvin and Aquinas' arguments from design
- the Principle of Accommodation - we are finite so can never know God through powers of reason, so God manifests in creation in ways we can understand
- God in nature is a mirror of his invisible nature
- the 'sparks of glory' - love, justice, power and mercy
- Paley's teleological argument of purpose - nature without a purpose makes God redundant
- Process theology - God is not independent of creation, but works with it to maximise greatest potentials at any moment in time
- there is no end point that creation is moving to
- Process theology - God is not independent of creation, but works with it to maximise greatest potentials at any moment in time
- Aesthetic/ Anthropic Principles
- The innate sense of God
- Revealed Theology
- Faith and God's Grace
- If Adam had remained upright (si integer stetisset Adam) we could have all known God - Calvin
- The Catholic Church says the fall didn't cut humans off from knowing God - just confused us
- 'there is another order of knowledge, which man cannot possibly arrive at by his own powers: the order of divine Revelation' CCC
- The Catholic Church says the fall didn't cut humans off from knowing God - just confused us
- faith is required to access God, as he revealed himself through prophets and in Jesus
- unformed faith: reason to believe but lack of faith
- Aquinas
- formed faith: both reason and faith
- Aquinas
- Calvin
- faith is firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence towards us - in Jesus
- willingness to believe: faith is given to anyone willing to accept it
- unformed faith: reason to believe but lack of faith
- faith alone is not sufficient to know God, God's gracious act is required to complete the relationship
- For Calvin - the gift of the holy spirit is to repair damage from original sin
- If Adam had remained upright (si integer stetisset Adam) we could have all known God - Calvin
- Revelation Through Jesus Christ
- the Bible should be read as Trinitarian
- Father: prophets and writers bear witness to revelation
- Son: mediator, clarity given to God's promises
- Holy Spirit: Christians are inspired and sustained
- 'Christ, who is the image of God' St Paul
- Calvin says Christ is mirror and mediator of the divine
- Christians maintain that full revelation cannot be gained without the Bible, it cannot be reduced to a 'religion of the book'
- knowledge of God the redeemer can only be known through JC
- the Bible should be read as Trinitarian
- Faith and God's Grace
- Natural Theology
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