knowledge of god Flashcards
natural theology
to understand or attempt to understand God’s nature and existence through observation of his creation, the natural world.
Calvin’s sensus divinitas
the seed of divinity, an innate part of every human allowing them to sense or be susceptible to God and knowledge of Him
epistemic distance
the gap between humanity and God, the disparity in our mortal understanding of an unknowable divine.
patterns in creation
The idea that in the order and presentation of certain things in the universe you can observe God in such things. God in the stars, lettering etc.
revealed theology and its two categories
knowledge believe to be given to humanity at Gods decision
immediate; given directly from God to a human
mediate; coming through an object of God to a human, bible etc
Wisdom in the old testament
Not exactly being prophets but the wise of pre Jesus age were understood to be passing on information gifted to them by God.
How did paul use reason to deny the Greeks false gods?
What they were worshiping was made of Gold and stone, resources given to use by the one true God. It makes no sense to worship something else through his properties.
to Polkinghorne are science and religion completely opposed?
No, they work like binoculars giving two equally as valid sides which back each other up and confirm realities. It’s foolish to look into one glass and not the other.
what were bonaventura’s three eyes
The eye of flesh
the eye of reason
the eye of contemplation
What quality was needed for a human to know God through Bonaventura’s third eye
Faith
is natural theology empirical or rational?
Both! It’s observation and contemplation.
Jesus was God… and breaking the… by being just as we are.
revealed… epistemic distance
Is God only in the beauty of earth?
No, as he’s all creation, the hellfire and natural disasters are him and his wrath too.
Cicero saw a creator in two things, what?
The stars and the self.
All knowledge stems from God’s undeserved…
Grace; the gifts we don’t warrant but are given in a return of faith.
