
Can we know truth even though certain proof is unattainable? Can we be known by Truth? Is there a relationship between belief and truth, and if so, what is the nature of that relationship? Do we need to have faith...
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Can we know truth even though certain proof is unattainable? Can we be known by Truth? Is there a relationship between belief and truth, and if so, what is the nature of that relationship? Do we need to have faith in reason and in real meaning to be able to reason towards truth? These are the sorts of questions this book seeks to address. In Faith's Knowledge, Paul Tyson argues that all knowledge that aims at truth is always the knowledge of faith. If this is the case, then--against our modernist cultural assumptions about knowledge--truth cannot be had by proof. Yet, if this is true, then mere information and simply objective facts do not (for us as knowers) exist. Knowledge is always embedded in belief, and knowledge and belief is always expressed in relationships, histories, narratives, shared meanings, and power. Hence, a theological sociology of knowledge emerges out of these explorations in thinking about knowledge as a function of faith.
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- Catalogue Code 398303
- Product Code 9781621896661
- ISBNÂ 1621896668
- EANÂ 9781621896661
- Department Academic
- Category Philosophy
- Sub-Category General
- Publisher Pickwick Publications
- Publication Date May 2013
- DRMÂ Adobe
- Printable No
- Size 0.26 MB (EPUB)
Paul Tyson
Paul Tyson is an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is author of Faith's Knowledge (2013). A