Title: The knowledge of God in Calvin's theology.
Authors: Dowey, Edward A.,
Date: 1952
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Physical description: x, 261 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: General characteristics of the knowledge of God. Its accommodated character ; Its correlative character ; Its existential character ; Its clarity and comprehensibility -- The duplex cognitio Domini -- The knowledge of God. The sensus divinitatis ; The conscience ; The knowledge of God derived from the external world ; Calvin's evaluation of the revelation in creation ; The knowledge of God the creator derived from Scripture ; The authority of Scripture ; The inspiration of the writers of the Bible ; The witness of the Spirit to the authority of the Bible ; The knowledge content of Scripture with reference to God the creator ; The relation of the knowledge of God the creator learned from creation to that learned from Scripture ; Conclusion -- The knowledge of God the redeemer. Faith as knowledge ; The object of faith's knowledge ; The changing forms of the historical revelation ; Individual limitations of faith's knowledge ; The illumination of the mind by the Holy Spirit ; Illumination ; The certainty of faith's knowledge ; Faith and election ; Faith and hope ; Calvin's definition of faith ; Beyond Calvin's formal definition ; Calvin's picture of existing faith ; Faith as mystical union with Christ ; The content of the knowledge of God the redeemer -- The relation between the knowledge of God the creator and the knowledge of God the redeemer. Law and the knowledge of the creation ; Law and the knowledge of the redeemer ; The dialectical relationship -- Appendices. A note on anthropomorphism ; Conscience and the sensus naturae ; The Barth-Brunner controversy on Calvin ; Köstlin's criticism of Calvin's predestination.
Notes: Without thesis statement.
Subject headings (LCSH): Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; God--Knowableness.