On Knowing God

Interdisciplinary Theological Perspectives

Jacobus Kok, Martin Webber, Jacobus Kok, Martin Webber

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781463244637
• Topic: Teología y religión
• Subtopic: Crítica e interpretación bíblicas

This book explores the concept of Knowing God and the Knowability of God from an interdisciplinary theological perspective, against the backdrop of celebrating 500 years of Reformation. Approaching the issue from the perspectives of their respective theological disciplines, contributors reflect on what it means to know God, how people of faith have sought to know God in the past, and indeed whether, and to what extent, such knowledge is even possible. The project team approached scholars from different disciplines in theology, affiliated with the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven in Belgium, to reflect on the topic. This provided the faculty with the opportunity for fruitful interdisciplinary collaboration and reflection as we attempted to look at the same topic from the vantage point of our own subject and expertise. Although we all come from the same institution, and are bounded by our common motto Fides Quaerens Intellectum, we have allowed ourselves to roam freely within the flats of the castle of theological inquiry and have enjoyed meeting each other in the courtyard and beautiful gardens on the occasion of our interdisciplinary seminars each year. The authors do not promise to provide in this book a coherently designed interdisciplinary approach. The authors promise to show you the beauty of each of our disciplinary rooms within the castle. The authors also show you their own dialogicality, and even paradox, but also their own dialogical harmony. This book will be of utmost value to anyone seeking to explore the question of 'Knowing God', or even the 'Knowability of God', from the perspective of all the main classical subdisciplines in theology (e.g. Old and New Testament Studies; Church History; Systematic Theology; Practical Theology and Missiology).

Table of contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Preface
• Introduction. On Knowing God: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Chapter One. The Knowability of God from the Perspective of Philosophical Epistemology
• Chapter Two. The Incomprehensibility and Knowability of God in Protestant Prolegomena
• Chapter Three. Knowing God with the Senses? A Biblical, Historical and Systematic Exploration of What the Body Can Tell Us about God
• Chapter Four. The Knowability of God: A Preliminary OT Survey
• Chapter Five. Different Currents in Israel and Beyond: Knowing God in the Intertestamental Period
• Chapter Six. Knowing God: A Johannine Perspective
• Chapter Seven. Practices of Knowing God in Embodiment and Encounter: A Practical Theological Reflection
• Chapter Eight. Images of God in a Social Cultural Context: The Casus of a Painting by Pieter Bruegel