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Knowledge and God

Knowledge and God
  • Matthew A. Benton
  • Published online:
    01 May 2024
    Print publication:
    30 May 2024
  • This Element examines a main theme in religious epistemology, namely, the possibility of knowledge of God. Most often philosophers consider the rationality or justification of propositional belief about God, particularly beliefs about the existence and nature of God; and they will assess the conditions under which, if there is a God, such propositional beliefs would be knowledge, particularly in light of counter-evidence or the availability of religious disagreement. This Element surveys such familiar areas, then turns toward newer and less-developed terrain: interpersonal epistemology, namely what it is to know another person. It then explores the prospects for understanding what it might take to know God relationally, the contours of which are significant for many theistic traditions.

  • 15 - Franciscan Knowledge

  • from Part III - New Directions
  • Edited by Jonathan Fuqua, Conception Seminary College, Missouri, John Greco, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Tyler McNabb, Saint Francis University, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology
    Published online:
    24 August 2023
    Print publication:
    17 August 2023, pp 224-240

  • Summary

    In “Francis and Dominic: Persons, Patterns, and the Trinity,” Eleonore Stump introduces the term “Franciscan knowledge” for a type of nonpropositional knowledge that includes certain sorts of self-knowledge; knowing music (without being able to identify it); knowledge of other persons through second-person experience and narratives; and, perhaps most importantly, knowledge of God (2000). In Wandering in Darkness (2010), Stump appeals to Franciscan knowledge in her response to the problem of evil, and a number of other philosophers (e.g., Benton, Duncan, and Efird, and Worsley) interact with Stump’s account in their accounts of nonpropositional knowledge, interpersonal knowledge, and knowledge of God. This chapter explains the notion of Franciscan knowledge and discusses some of the ways it has influenced recent work in the philosophy of religion. Since the claim that there is irreducibly nonpropositional knowledge is controversial, the chapter also defends the very existence of Franciscan knowledge.