was a gift from the living God Himself and created a new and independent category of religious knowledge, a knowledge sui generis, that is, of a unique kind. Greek philosophers recognized only two kinds of knowledge: rational and sensorial, that is, knowledge that comes through reason and through the senses. These channels provided an awareness of the true and the beautiful. The Hebrew and Christian believers recognized a third way of receiving knowledge: that of a personal experience with God through
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