"[...]we can have a True, though not an adequate knowledge of the nature of God."

- april 12, 2012

"[...]we can have a True, though not an adequate knowledge of the nature of God. We cannot have an adequate knowledge of God, that is, a knowledge co-extensive in every feature with its subject. Such a knowledge would be that vision of Him face to face, which cannot be ours till the last change is accomplished and everything partial shall have ceased. We can, however, have a true knowledge, that is, a knowledge true in principle, true in its tendency, and true in the goal at which it aims;—true because it goes out from and leads to God. This distinction between a true and an adequate knowledge of God hovered before the minds of our elder theologians when they distinguished between a “theologia viatorum et beatorum.” (Martensen, Christian Dogmatics, p. 82)

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