Knowledge Of The Exsistence Of God Flashcards
Eye of the flesh
Physical things, visible. Impiricle evidence.
Eye of reason
Logic, gaining mathematical or natural logic
Eye of contemplation
Knowledge through faith
Natural theology
Gaining knowledge through human reason
Revealed theology
When god shows himself to us directly
Polkinghorne
Analogy of binoculars with two different lenses that show something different in each, yet a perfect picture when together when describing faith and logic.
What does Calvin say we have
Senses divinitas - idea of the Divine (seed of the Divine). An innate knowledge of God.
Bonaventura👁👁👁
Wrote about his ideas of the three eyes of knowing
Swinburne
Argues we can tell there is a divine as there are too many clues and leads for it to be false - “creation was not by choice
Mediate revelation
When gods message was given to someone and relayed forward, eg Moses and the 10 commandments
Person of Jesus
God is revealed through Jesus as christ
Jesus is the word made flesh
Epistemic distance- Hick
Distance between humans and god , placed by human sinfulness
Wisdom literature
God can be revealed through insights of wise people