Divine Revelation and Human Learning: A Christian Theory of Knowledge

by Heywood,David

• ISBN13: 9780754608509
• ISBN10: 0754608506
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

How do we learn about God? In an age of competing world-views, what is the basis of the Christian claim to offer the truth about God, the world and ourselves?David Heywood charts a path through the study of human knowledge, showing how the insights of theology, philosophy and psychology complement and amplify one another, and bringing the experience of revelation within the scope of the study of human learning. He shows the relationship between human psychology and the work of the Holy Spirit and demonstrates the credibility of the Christian claim to a transforming knowledge of God in Jesus Christ. Offering a new model for the relationship of theology to the natural and social sciences, David Heywood shows how the claim of Christian theology to deal in issues of universal truth can be upheld. For Christian education, this book provides a theological rationale for the use of methods of teaching and learning of educationally proven effectiveness.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Stylistic Note	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
Christian Discipleship	1	(1)
Theory and Practice	2	(7)
The Scope of the Argument	9	(6)
Knowing the World	15	(18)
Seeing and Looking	15	(2)
Remembering	17	(3)
Schemata as Mental Processes	20	(4)
Tacit Knowledge as Bodily Knowing	24	(2)
Interaction and Learning	26	(7)
The Big Picture	33	(24)
Psychology and Philosophy	33	(8)
Intention and Interpretation	41	(4)
Artificial Intelligence?	45	(7)
The Postmodern Climate	52	(5)
Thinking and Feeling	57	(16)
Tacit and Explicit Knowledge	57	(4)
Intuitive Fit	61	(5)
Dissonance: A Cognitive Theory of Emotion	66	(4)
Attitudes and Affective Processing	70	(3)
Knowing the Self	73	(24)
The Development of Identity	73	(5)
Primary Socialization	78	(3)
Self and Others	81	(5)
Identity and Learning	86	(3)
'I' and `Me'	89	(8)
Theology Among the Sciences	97	(22)
Separate Perspectives?	97	(3)
Paradigm Theory	100	(4)
Interpreting People	104	(1)
Images of Humanity	105	(4)
Access to God's Truth	109	(5)
The Possibility of Revelation	114	(5)
The Image of God	119	(26)
Humanity in God's Image	119	(10)
The Person of Christ	129	(3)
The Spirit of Revelation	132	(5)
Conformation	137	(8)
The Jesus of Faith and History	145	(20)
A Universal Knowledge of God?	145	(7)
The Historical Christ	152	(6)
Revelation and the Bible	158	(7)
Conclusion	165	(14)
Divine Communication	165	(2)
Above or Within?	167	(2)
Theology or Social Science?	169	(2)
Good Theory and Good Teaching	171	(4)
Discipleship	175	(4)
Bibliography	179	(18)
Name index	197	(2)
Subject index	199