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Alvin Plantinga's Epistemology and the Anthropology of the Old Testament Writers.

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正題名/作者:	Alvin Plantinga's Epistemology and the Anthropology of the Old Testament Writers./
作者:	Sandstrom, Ericka.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
面頁冊數:	260 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-10A.
標題:	Biblical studies. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30424136
ISBN:	9798379434618

Alvin Plantinga's Epistemology and the Anthropology of the Old Testament Writers.
Sandstrom, Ericka.

Alvin Plantinga's Epistemology and the Anthropology of the Old Testament Writers. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 260 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, 2023.

The purpose of this dissertation is to expose the Old Testament's anthropological claim and epistemological claim, albeit implicit, that the human person is designed to know God with its whole being (i.e., spirit and body). These claims, which when combined are identified as the Old Testament's anthro-epistemology, ultimately address the false dichotomy that either faith or reason is the legitimate means to attaining knowledge and truth. Essentially, exposing the Old Testament's anthro-epistemology to address this false dichotomy, involved a methodology whereby the Old Testament's epistemology and anthropology were investigated to demonstrate how the former informs the latter. The methodology initially consisted of a tracing of the historical development of Christian anthropology to assess what the main Christian anthropological perspective is along with its origin. This evaluation resulted in the conclusion that the main Christian anthropological perspective is that the person is comprised of body, soul, and spirit which led to the realization that it is rooted in ancient Greek philosophy's anthropological perspective (i.e., the person is a trichotomous, compartmentalized being with a hierarchical structure). The problem this realization exposed is that the Archimedean point (i.e., starting point) of the main Christian anthropological perspective is not Scripture but instead a non-biblical belief system. The next step in the methodology, then, was an investigation of the Old Testament writers' anthropological terms through a stereometric-synthetic approach. This approach illuminated the Old Testament writers' perspective as one whereby the person comes to know something or someone, but specifically God, through every aspect of their being. That is, while they used anthropological terms to refer to physical and non-physical aspects of the person, they also used those same terms to describe the person's epistemic aspects (e.g., the heart refers to the organ as well as reason, emotions, and will). An evaluation of the Old Testament's concepts of knowledge, fear of the Lord, the image of God, the shema, and the Holy Spirit followed to{A0}determine the Old Testament's epistemology. This evaluation along with the conclusion about the Old Testament writers' anthropology resulted in the observation that the Old Testament's epistemology is implicit. Alvin Plantinga's biblically based epistemological models were used as a lens to effectively analyze it. His understanding of knowledge, the image of God, and the Holy Spirit provided a biblically based epistemological framework that assisted in detecting the Old Testament's implicit epistemology. It was concluded that its epistemology consists of the notion that God gives knowledge to human persons in accordance with the way He designed them to receive it: with their whole person. It was also concluded that He gives knowledge to humankind for relational purposes that lead to salvation and an intimate relationship with Him. Evaluating several Old Testament accounts of those who gained knowledge about God through an encounter with Him (e.g., Abraham, Hagar, Sarah, Moses, Saul, David, and Ezekiel) was the final part of the methodology. It served to affirm that the Old Testament writers make an epistemological claim and an anthropological claim. The former is that knowing God involves a journey that requires every God-given human aspect to attain the knowledge God provides His people. The latter is that the human person is an epistemic being that can know God with its whole being. Together these claims rebuke the ancient Greek philosophical notion in Christian anthropology that the human person is a compartmentalized being with a hierarchical structure. They also refute today's popular notion that either faith or reason is the legitimate means to attaining knowledge and truth. Thus, the Old Testament's anthro-epistemology affirms that all the person is needed to know God.

ISBN: 9798379434618Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Biblical studies.
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Old testament

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