Epistemology: The branch of philosophy concerned with questions about knowledge and belief and related issues such as justification and truth. Some conceive of epistemology as an attempt to refute skepticism, the denial that knowledge is possible.One of the major debates in epistemology is that of internalism versus externalism: Must the basis or ground that warrants a belief be internally accessible to consciousness? Another major debate is foundationalism versus coherentism: Are some beliefs "properly basic," or are all beliefs based on other beliefs in an interconnected web?
Some philosophers of religion have argued that critiques of religious belief as unreasonable are grounded in faulty epistemologies, theories of knowledge that if applied to fields other than religion would make knowledge impossible in those other fields as well.1
1. C.Stephen Evans, Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002), pp. 39-40.
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Many of the books and articles that I read on religious epistemology don’t seem to do the bible justice. I personally have adopted a “presuppositionlist” approach to apologetics because without the bible (The word of God) as you starting point, you don’t have much to stand on.
Scripture is the best source of “religious epistemology”.
“Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know My hand and My might; And they shall know that My name is the LORD.” (Jeremiah 16:21).
The Lord is the cause of their “knowledge” that he is Lord.
A good preacher, apologist, teacher should be able to make a relationship between person’s circumstances and what God is trying to reveal to them.
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