John Calvin’s Multiplicity Thesis
John Calvin holds that the fall radically changed humanity’s moral and epistemic capacities. Recognizing that should lead Christian philosophers to see that philosophical questions require at least two sets of answers: one reflecting our nature and capacities before the fall, and the other reflectin...
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| description | John Calvin holds that the fall radically changed humanity’s moral and epistemic capacities. Recognizing that should lead Christian philosophers to see that philosophical questions require at least two sets of answers: one reflecting our nature and capacities before the fall, and the other reflecting our nature and capacities after the fall. Our prelapsarian knowledge of God, the right, and the good is direct and noninferential; our postlapsarian knowledge of them is mostly indirect, inferential, and filled with moral and epistemic risk. Only revelation can move us beyond fragmentary and indeterminate moral and theological knowledge. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-daf03fd82b264635972e5ce2d9d432992023-11-21T22:09:58ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442021-05-0112639910.3390/rel12060399John Calvin’s Multiplicity ThesisDaniel Bonevac0Department of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USAJohn Calvin holds that the fall radically changed humanity’s moral and epistemic capacities. Recognizing that should lead Christian philosophers to see that philosophical questions require at least two sets of answers: one reflecting our nature and capacities before the fall, and the other reflecting our nature and capacities after the fall. Our prelapsarian knowledge of God, the right, and the good is direct and noninferential; our postlapsarian knowledge of them is mostly indirect, inferential, and filled with moral and epistemic risk. Only revelation can move us beyond fragmentary and indeterminate moral and theological knowledge.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/6/399John Calvinphilosophymoral knowledgeknowledge of God |
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