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Chapter Five CHRISTIANITY IS NOT EPISTEMOLOGY Have you heard of "the epistemological heresy"? Though the phrase may be novel, th ...

message. Those outside of the Christian faith have often reacted to the Christian presentation and proclamation, finding particu ...

Defining Terms "Epistemology" is a philosophical term etymologically derived from three Greek words: (1) epi meaning "upon" or " ...

epistemologically determined in human logic categories, but instead he trusted God in faith. Writing to Timothy, Paul indicates ...

for man. Rather, God wants His character of love to be expressed behaviorally. Paul explains that his prayer for the Ephesians i ...

into themselves (John 1:12) and allow Jesus Christ to be their life (Col. 3:4). The essence of Christianity is to be identified ...

foundational to Christianity. There are historically dated events and theological interpretations of those events that form the ...

An Historical Survey The Creator-God created the creature-man in such a way as to encourage the free-flow of the active expressi ...

The history of mankind is replete with a confusion of opinions as men have advocated competing ideologies to attempt to explain ...

Christianity wherein the radical uniqueness of the divine action (salvation, justification, sanctification, etc.) is necessarily ...

evidenced in the writings of the church fathers and their reversion to legalism. The ensuing creedalizing of a Christian belief- ...

Has anything changed? Christian religion today is mired in doctrinal dispute. They argue over the length of one's ordo salutis i ...

The religion of "natural man" inevitably slides toward epistemological knowledge, towards knowledge of external data formulated ...

God can be known only in the personal self-revelation of Himself. More specifically, God’s revelation is made by the Son (Luke 1 ...

God is the very content of all that He does. The divine action (whether salvation, justification, sanctification, etc.) is neces ...

of benefits. The divine act is disconnected from the divine Actor. Christian realities are viewed as products, commodities, "goo ...

ecstatic psychological effect, but there remains a "separated concept," both epistemologically or experientially. The radical un ...

unregenerate person identified with the Evil one and manifesting his character of evil. The Christian, identified with God in Ch ...

the connectedness of God and His working in Christ, and at the same time to expose examples of the disjuncture of such in popula ...