On Knowing God

Interdisciplinary Theological Perspectives

Edited by Jacobus Kok, Martin Webber & Jeremy Otten

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This book explores the concept of Knowing God and the Knowability of God from an interdisciplinary theological perspective. 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.

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Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics 80

Publication Date: Jan 31,2023

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Page Count: 319

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-4632-4462-0

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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).

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	Contributor	Biography
	Jacobus Kok	Jacobus Kok (PhD; PhD) is Professor and Head of New Testament Studies at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven in Belgium and co-Director of the Research Centre for Early Christianity at ETF Leuven in Belgium.
	Martin Webber	Martin Webber (PhD) is Professor of New Testament Studies at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven in Belgium.
	Jeremy Otten	Jeremy D. Otten (PhD) is Senior Researcher in New Testament Studies at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven in Belgium.

Preface.................................................................................... vii
Introduction. On Knowing God: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Dr. Philip Fisk .................................................................... xi
Chapter One. The Knowability of God from the Perspective of
Philosophical Epistemology
Dr. Ralf-Thomas Klein ......................................................... 1
Chapter Two. The Incomprehensibility and Knowability of God
in Protestant Prolegomena
Dr. Philip Fisk ................................................................... 27
Chapter Three. Knowing God with the Senses? A Biblical,
Historical and Systematic Exploration of What the Body
Can Tell Us about God
Prof. Dr. Nico den Bok ...................................................... 69
Chapter Four. The Knowability of God: A Preliminary OT Survey
Dr. W. Creighton Marlowe ................................................. 91
Chapter Five. Different Currents in Israel and Beyond: Knowing
God in the Intertestamental Period
Prof. Dr. Geert Lorein ...................................................... 123
Chapter Six. Knowing God: A Johannine Perspective
Prof. Dr. Jacobus Kok ..................................................... 181
Chapter Seven. Practices of Knowing God in Embodiment and
Encounter: A Practical Theological Reflection
Prof. Dr. Jack Barentsen .................................................. 203
Chapter Eight. Images of God in a Social Cultural Context: The
Casus of a Painting by Pieter Bruegel
Prof. Dr. Pieter Boersema ................................................ 237

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