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Truth in religion: a polanyian appraisal of wolfhart pannenberg's theological program
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In this paper, the authors explore the senses in which religious meanings may be understood to be grounded ontologically and in which they may be validly accepted as true in the sense that they integrate meaningfully all the disparate elements of our experience.Abstract:
. This essay attempts to explore the senses in which religious meanings may be understood to be grounded ontologically and in which they may be validly accepted as true. It begins by outlining Wolfhart Pannenberg's proposal for conceiving the scientific status of theology and his formulation of the question of theological truth. Then certain epistemological presuppositions are challenged in light of Michael Polanyi's theory of knowledge. Finally a revised understanding is proposed in Polanyian terms. Here in their primordial sense religious meanings are based in the act of breaking out toward the ground of our tacit foreknowledge. In their primary sense religious symbolizations are accepted as human creations and judged to be valid insofar as they integrate meaningfully all the disparate elements of our experience.read more
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The Symbolic Structure of Revelation
TL;DR: The second major approach to revelation in current theology is designated as historical as discussed by the authors, which would hold that God reveals Himself not just by inspiring a prophetic interpretation of ambiguous events but by producing in history events with a clear meaning accessible to all reasonable observers.
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Polanyi's Ethics
TL;DR: The question of 'ethics' is an extremely important one in the philosophic position being developed by Michael Polanyi as discussed by the authors, who has never brought all the facets of his "ethics" into definitive focus at any place in his writings.
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