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The Bible and Epistemology: Biblical Soundings on the Knowledge of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many theologians and Christian philosophers have given considerable attention to the theory of knowledge in recent years. However, the rich resources of the biblical literature on questions of knowledge, especially the knowledge of God, have hardly begun to be mined because biblical scholars have rarely posed such questions to the texts. In this volume, Catholic and Protestant biblical scholars...

the special case of knowledge of God, this transformation is nothing less than the gift of new life. In what follows I shall trace the epistemological features of this attentiveness and transformation as they are brought to light in the essays of this volume. The presupposition of an attentive epistemology is that the object to be known somehow gives itself to be known. Martin cites Jacques Maritain’s claim that there is a ‘basic generosity of existence’.3 While one cannot attribute intention
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