Theology and the Knowledge of Persons

Eleonore Stump

doi:10.18290/rf21693-1

Eleonore Stump Sains Louis University, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6983-5562

Keywords: divine hiddenness, knowledge of persons, second-person knowledge, narrative knowledge

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to discern between philosophy and theology. A philosopher is looking after impersonal wisdom, a theologian searches for a personal God. This differentiation is fundamental because knowledge of persons differs from knowledge that. The author shows how taking into account the fact that theology is based on the second-person knowledge changes the way one should approach the hiddenness argument.

* The paper was originally published in: Fiona Ellis (ed.), New Models of Religious Understanding (Oxford: OUP, 2017), 172–90. Reprinted by the permission of the Author.

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