Blessed Are Those Who Have Not Seen and Yet Have Known By Faith: Knowledge, Faith, and Sight in the New Testament
The New Testament speaks of our having faith rather than sight. This distinction is not made to distinguish faith from knowledge. Rather, it is to distinguish one kind of knowledge from another. We may know by trust in reliable authority; this knowledge is necessarily secondhand, but it is knowledge...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Опубликовано: |
2020
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The Evangelical quarterly
Год: 2020, Том: 91, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 133-146 |
| Индексация IxTheo: | HC Новый Завет |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
2 Corinthians 5:7
B FAITH (Christianity) B Bible. New Testament B Bible. Hebrews B Hebrews 11:1 B METONYMS B Apostolate (Christian theology) B Faith B Knowledge B John 20:29 B Biblical Epistemology B Sight |
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| Итог: | The New Testament speaks of our having faith rather than sight. This distinction is not made to distinguish faith from knowledge. Rather, it is to distinguish one kind of knowledge from another. We may know by trust in reliable authority; this knowledge is necessarily secondhand, but it is knowledge all the same. This, I argue, is the New Testament idea of faith. Another way of knowing is firsthand. Sight in the New Testament, I argue, is a metonym for firsthand knowledge. In this article I consider the meaning of faith and sight in the relevant New Testament passages, with an extended exegesis of 2 Cor. 5:7 and Heb. 11:1. |
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| ISSN: | 2772-5472 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: The Evangelical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09102003 |
