A sense of the divine : an affective model of general revelation from the reformed tradition / N. Gray Sutanto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sutanto, Nathaniel Gray, 1991- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in Christian doctrine 2977-0211

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revelation--Reformed Church.

Revelation.

Reformed Church--Doctrines.

Reformed Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (51 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Imprints page

A Sense of the Divine: An Affective Model of General Revelation from the Reformed Tradition

Contents

1 General Revelation: The Questions and Initial Statement

2 A Minimal Account: Historical Witnesses

3 An Affective Model of General Revelation

3.1 Johan Bavinck on Romans 1

3.2 Herman Bavinck on Gevoel

3.3 Alvin Plantinga's Sensus Divinitatis: A Faculty-Model

4 Reorienting the Findings of the Cognitive Science of Religion: Affect and Propositions

4.1 The Cognitive Science of Religion and "Cognitively Natural Theism"

4.2 Locating the Affective and Phenomenological Salience of General Revelation

5 Can Knowledge Precede Propositions? On Phenomenology and Affective Salience

5.1 A Theological Interpretation of Heidegger: Affect and Practice

5.2 Three More Benefits of the Affective Model

6 Objections: Barth, Schilder, and McFarland

6.1 Karl Barth

6.2 Klaas Schilder

6.3 Ian McFarland

7 Conclusion

References

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-009-52790-8

1-009-52792-4

1-009-52791-6

OCLC:

1574124206