Let us be altogether clear on this point: to affirm the primacy of experiential knowledge of God in this sense is not to suggest that the apostolic confession of Jesus Christ is a theoretical construct that is the product of the apostles’ reflection upon themselves and their intuitions about God. True knowledge of God is neither unmediated nor intuitive; this knowledge is not the product of independent self-analysis, and thus cannot be obtained by self-generated efforts to probe one’s inner thoughts
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