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knowledge of God's existence. - Coggle Diagram
knowledge of God's existence.
Natrual Theology
Thomas Aquinas
Thought that Natural theology was useful in being able to gain knowledage about God's because of the fact that though observation everone is able to gaina greater undertanding of God. therefore God can be understood in way other then scripture.
Also we can see how he uses natural theology and human reason to explain God's existance in this cosmological argument.
The idea that we can fine eveidance of Gods existance though obervieng his creations and the world around us.
The fact we have an inate sense of the Devine
Also known as the Sensus divinitatis
The fact we have an inate sense of what is beautyful
Theology done on the basis of general revelation using our reason to work out things about God.
paley's watch exarple
The world is so complex that the world complexity must be evidence of God's existance.
Richard Swinburne
Evidance in god can be seen though peoples abillity to reason and use obervaition.
Revealed Theology
Calvin
Thought that while natrual theology was good in that he belived we had an inate sense of the Divine and beauty. He clamed we can't understand God.
We can find out more about God though the ways in whihc he has reveiled himself to us.
Religious expirance
The Bible and other Holy scripture.
Special Revelation
The way God is revealed in a special way at particular times and particular places. Unlike General Revelation is is not available all the time in the same way to everyone.
Revealed Knowledge:
Knowledge based on special revelations of God. Unlike natural knowledge it is not done by reason but consists primarily of faithfully receiving what is believed to be God's word.
This way feels rather retrictive in that God only reveles to sertan people at sertan places and times.
What about those before Jesus and the bible how can that knowlge be understood by those that came before.
The issues of the fall of man.
When Adam fell from Gods grace he lost a important contection with God.
This means that humans are inherantly sinful and therefore natural theology is not sificent to know about god and that can be subjected to the flaws of human reason.
This is a point brought up by argustine
The issues of Faith.
The act of Faith is trusting that somthing is ture dispite the possability that is may not be true.
Thomas Aquinas suggests that Faith and oppinuons are diffrent.