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Knowledge that saves
Book #2 is starting to take shape. The struggle has been to find the way in. Now I seem to have the line: can’t write a book which is supposed to help us to know Jesus without writing about knowing Jesus! In other words, the what without the how is pointless.
This seems right whatever object one’s discussing. But in case of Jesus, the Bible is full of statements about salvation coming from knowledge of God. How does this sit with post 4th century pessimism in West about our capacity to know him?
Challenges: theol. epistemology; salvific cognition; different ways of knowing in experience. This to include the experience of oscillation between extremes in ethics (virtue the opposite of vice, but holding the dynamic) – not natural theology is sense of something opposed to faith, but recognition that ultimately universe is Christlike.
