Faith's Knowledge: Explorations into the Theory and Application of Theological Epistemology - Couverture souple

Tyson, Paul

 
9781610978187: Faith's Knowledge: Explorations into the Theory and Application of Theological Epistemology

Synopsis

Can we know truth even though certain proof is unattainable? Can we be known by Truth? Is there a relationship between belief and truth, and if so, what is the nature of that relationship? Do we need to have faith in reason and in real meaning to be able to reason towards truth? These are the sorts of questions this book seeks to address. In Faith's Knowledge, Paul Tyson argues that all knowledge that aims at truth is always the knowledge of faith. If this is the case, then-against our modernist cultural assumptions about knowledge-truth cannot be had by proof. Yet, if this is true, then mere information and simply objective facts do not (for us as knowers) exist. Knowledge is always embedded in belief, and knowledge and belief is always expressed in relationships, histories, narratives, shared meanings, and power. Hence, a theological sociology of knowledge emerges out of these explorations in thinking about knowledge as a function of faith.

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Paul Tyson writes about Christian Platonism, theological metaphysics, epistemology, the theology of science, theological sociology, the sociology of knowledge, and the theology and politics of money.

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9781498262316: Faith's Knowledge: Explorations Into the Theory and Application of Theological Epistemology

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ISBN 10 :  1498262317 ISBN 13 :  9781498262316
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2013
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