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My purpose in this book is to examine, with special reference to the Bible, the concept of the knowledge of God. This task will involve me in both philosophical analysis and biblical exegesis. Philosophically, I shall have to examine whether or not the expression ‘the knowledge of God’, as used in the Bible, makes sense. This will involve me in a consideration of what anything has to be in order to be knowledge, and what God has to be in order to known. Exegetically, my task will be to examine a selection of claims to know God which occur in the Bible in order to discover precisely what they purport to claim.
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H. P. Owen, The Christian Knowledge of God (London: The Athlone Press 1969) p.1.
G. Pitcher, The Philosophy of Wittgenstein (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964).
A. Kenny, Wittgenstein (London: Allen Lane, 1973).
W. D. Hudson, Ludwig Wittgenstein: the Bearing of his Philosophy upon Religious Belief (London: Lutterworth Press 1968);
W. D. Hudson, ‘Some Remarks on Wittgenstein’s Account of Religious Belief’ in Talk of God, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures, vol. 2 edited by G. N. A. Vesey (London: Macmillan, 1969).
W. D. Hudson, A Philosophical Approach to Religion (London: Macmillan, 1974) pp. 3–25.
W. D. Hudson, Wittgenstein and Religious Belief (London: Macmillan, 1975).
W.D. Hudson, A Philosophical Approach to Religion (London: Macmillan, 1974) p.7.
I. T. Ramsey, Religious Language (London: SCM Press, 1969) pp.49ff.
Cf. W. D. Hudson, A Philosophical Approach to Religion (London: Macmillan, 1974) p.163.
J. Macquarrie, Principles of Christian Theology (London: SCM Press, 1966) p.129.
Cf. D. D. Evans, The Logic of Self-Involvement (London: SCM Press, 1963) pp.l5ff.
A good example, using the concept of covenant is W. Eichrodt: Theology of the Old Testament, vol. 1 and 2 (London: SCM Press, 1961 and 1967).
This work is now in English translation, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (London: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1964).
Cf. J. Barr, The Semantics of Biblical Language (London: Oxford University Press 1961),
J. Barr, Old and New In Interpretation (London: SCM Press, 1966).
J. Barr, Biblical Words for Time (London: SCM Press, 2nd rev. edn., 1961).
J. Barr, ‘Trends and Prospects in Biblical Theology’, The Journal ofTheological Studies (New Series, Oct. 1974).
For an autobiographical description of the movement into biblical theology see H. H. Rowley, The Unity of the Bible (London: The Carey Kingsgate Press, 1955) pp.1–29.
J. Barr, J.T.S., Oct 1974, p.270.
As is implied, with respect of the Old Testament, by Th. C. Vriezen, An Outline of Old Testament Theology (Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1958) p.128.
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Haymes, B. (1988). Purpose and Method. In: The Concept of the Knowledge of God. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19066-9_1
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