Revelation
- Created by: JMitch
- Created on: 31-05-13 14:53
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Experience through Revelation
- General Revelation: Available to all people at all times - Beauty of creation, voice of conscience gives experience of God
- Special Revelation: Revelation about God to a specific person at 1 time - all revelations of sacred writings are this - 'All scripture is divinely inspired' (2 Timothy 3:16)
- Questions whether revalation reveals facts about God or whether the facts are implied by God making himself known
Propositional Revelation
- Traditional view of revelation - scripture statements is how God revealed himself (E.g. commandments and Qur'an)
- Aquinas called these propositions a 'Belief that' - to have faith you have a 'belief that' certain propositions are true, such as the nature of Jesus
Criticisms
- How come that there are contradictions between…
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