John Calvin’s Multiplicity Thesis
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چکیده
John Calvin holds that the fall radically changed humanity’s moral and epistemic capacities. Recognizing should lead Christian philosophers to see philosophical questions require at least two sets of answers: one reflecting our nature capacities before fall, other after fall. Our prelapsarian knowledge God, right, good is direct noninferential; postlapsarian them mostly indirect, inferential, filled with risk. Only revelation can move us beyond fragmentary indeterminate theological knowledge.
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عنوان ژورنال: Religions
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2077-1444']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12060399