“They Saw What They Said They Saw”: Sense Knowledge in Early Christian Polemic

A curious parallel exists between two early Christian discussions of prophetic or divine knowledge. Both deal with the Christian problem of sense knowledge about the divine in a thought world dominated by Platonic thinking: how can Christians base their knowledge of the divine upon the reports of th...

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Main Author: Hauck, Robert J. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1988
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1988, Volume: 81, Issue: 3, Pages: 239-249
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