A Sense of the Divine: An Affective Model of General Revelation from the Reformed Tradition (Elements in Christian Doctrine) - Softcover

Sutanto, N. Gray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009527894 ISBN 13: 9781009527897

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009527894
• ISBN 13: 9781009527897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64