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God in Himself: Scripture, Metaphysics, and the Task of Christian Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

This longstanding question has been addressed by Christian theologians throughout the church’s history. Some, such as Thomas Aquinas, argued for the role of natural revelation. Others, including Karl Barth, emphasized the importance of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ and Scripture. Recent theological reflection has also explored the relationship between metaphysical and biblical approaches to...

receive the “light of faith.” Instead of proactively reasoning toward the truth of God we receive God’s own testimony about himself. Though faith is not a matter of seeing God firsthand or demonstrating what is true about him, it is a kind of knowledge (cognitio). Furthermore, while the description of God in supernatural revelation draws from created effects and similitudes of God, the faith that receives such revelation imperfectly partakes of and anticipates in via the immediate knowledge of the
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