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Seeing by the Light: Illumination in Augustine’s and Barth’s Readings of John is unavailable, but you can change that!

How can we understand God’s revelation to us? Throughout the church’s history, theologians have often answered this question by appealing to a doctrine of illumination whereby the Holy Spirit shapes our knowledge and understanding of Scripture. Without denying the role of the Holy Spirit or the cognitive role of illumination, Ike Miller casts a broader vision of divine illumination and its role...

contribution to illumination. Both Lydia Schumacher’s Divine Illumination and Ronald Nash’s The Light of the Mind make great strides toward understanding the Augustinian theory of illumination but neither are dogmatic constructions. Bernard Ramm’s The Witness of the Spirit may very well be our closest comparable work, though some may distinguish illumination from the internal witness of the Holy Spirit. John Owen’s magisterial Pneumatologia (or, A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit), which John
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