
A Sense of the Divine
An Affective Model of General Revelation from the Reformed Tradition
N. Gray Sutanto(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 22. May 2025
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64 pages
978-1-009-52789-7 (ISBN)
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How should one make sense of the Christian confession that God has instilled a 'sense of divinity' in every person? While other approaches have identified the sense with a perceptual or cognitive faculty or with the empirical reports of theistic belief, this Element advances an affective model of general revelation, which draws from the writings of the neo-Calvinist branch of the Reformed tradition. The author argues that the sense of divinity refers to an implanted 'feeling of divinity', a sensus numinis, and that this model makes better sense of the Christian witness, theologically re-orients the empirical findings from the cognitive science of religion, and eludes influential objections against the doctrine of general revelation.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
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111 gr
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978-1-009-52789-7 (9781009527897)
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N. Gray Sutanto
A Sense of the Divine
An Affective Model of General Revelation from the Reformed Tradition
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05/2025
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1. General Revelation: The Questions and Initial Statement; 2. A Minimal Account: Historical Witnesses; 3. An Affective Model of General Revelation; 4. Re-Orienting the Findings of the Cognitive Science of Religion: Affect and Propositions; 5. Can Knowledge Precede Propositions? On Phenomenology; 6. Objections: Barth, Schilder, and McFarland; 7. Conclusion.