TMU Christian Theology 1
Epistemology - answerHow we know what we know
Epistemological axiom-revelation of God to us
Ontology - answerPhilosophical field that asks the question of being or essence or nature
Prolegomena - answer"Things spoken before" (Greek)
A type of pre-theology Theology
Questions associated w/ prolegomena - answerWhat're we doing?
How are we going to do it?
What are we doing to do with it?
Theological Loci - answer*****
a priori knowledge
(Pure knowledge) - answerUnlearned, innate
a posteriori knowledge
(Empirical knowledge) - answerDerived from experience
Immediate self-consciousness
(from Schleiermacher) - answerBasis of religion
Revelation - answerFundamental biblical understanding
"Revelation is the disclosure of God's reality and therefore stands apart as the epistemological axiom of Christianity"
General Revelation - answerGod's indiscriminate self-disclosure available to all people everywhere, all of the time
(not a natural ability of all men to know God)
Attributes - answerThose character qualities that are essential to God
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