Revelation - Non-Verbal propositional

Revelation refers to an uncovering or disclosure via communication from the divine something that has been previously wholly or partially hidden or unknown. In monotheistic religions, revelation is the process, or act of making divine truth known. Revelation can be that which God makes known about himself, his will, and/or something else to mankind using any number of various methods and means. The recipient of revelation is commonly referred to a ...

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• Revelation - Visitations
• Revelation - Verbal
• Revelation - Aristotelian rationalism
• Revelation - Non-Verbal propositional
• Revelation - Through historical development of faith
• Revelation - Latter Day Saint concept of Revelation
• Revelation - Existentialism

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One school of thought holds that revelation is non-verbal and non-literal, yet it may have propositional content. People were divinely inspired by God with a message, but not in a verbal-like fashion. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel has written that "To convey what the prophets experienced, the Bible could either use terms of descriptions or terms of indication. Any description of the act of revelation in empirical categories would have produced a caricature. That is why all the Bible does is to state that revelation happened; How it happened is something they could only convey in words that ...

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Revelation, Revelation - Visitations, Revelation - Verbal, Revelation - Aristotelian rationalism, Revelation - Non-Verbal propositional, Revelation - Through historical development of faith, Revelation - Latter Day Saint concept of Revelation, Revelation - Existentialism

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Some believe that God is non-anthropomorphic, and thus believe the above listed forms of revelation are impossible. Hence they believe God's will is revealed through the interaction of man and God throughout history. For instance, Rabbi Louis Jacobs proposes that by viewing how the Jewish people have understood God's will throughout history, we see how God has actually influenced the development of Jewish law; it is this process that we should recognize as revelation. One part of the Talmud declares rabbinic interpretatio ...

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Revelation, Revelation - Visitations, Revelation - Verbal, Revelation - Aristotelian rationalism, Revelation - Non-Verbal propositional, Revelation - Through historical development of faith, Revelation - Latter Day Saint concept of Revelation, Revelation - Existentialism

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In the 20th century, religious existentialists proposed that revelation held no content in of itself; rather, they hold that God inspired people with His presence by coming into contact with them. In this view the Bible is a human response that records how we responded to God. Revelation or information from a supernatural source is of much lesser importance in some other religious traditions. It is not of great importance in the Asian religions Taoism, and Confucianism but similarities have been noted between the Abrahamic view of revelation ...

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Revelation, Revelation - Visitations, Revelation - Verbal, Revelation - Aristotelian rationalism, Revelation - Non-Verbal propositional, Revelation - Through historical development of faith, Revelation - Latter Day Saint concept of Revelation, Revelation - Existentialism

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The Latter Day Saint concept of revelation includes the belief that revelation from God is available to all those who seek it—provided they submit to the will of God—as opposed to being imparted to certain special individuals (independent of their own actions or desires). The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and some other Latter Day Saint demonimations claim to be led by revelation from God to a living prophet, who receives God’s word just as Abraham, Moses, Peter, and other ancient prophets and apostles did. It also ...

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Revelation, Revelation - Visitations, Revelation - Verbal, Revelation - Aristotelian rationalism, Revelation - Non-Verbal propositional, Revelation - Through historical development of faith, Revelation - Latter Day Saint concept of Revelation, Revelation - Existentialism

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The neo-Aristotelian philosophers of the medieval era held that revelation was the discovery of absolute truths about God, man, and man's place in God's universe, as discovered through logical philosophical inquiry. A prophet's connection to God was held to be the only way that a person could reach such a state of pure reason. A subset of this category is natural revelation. Some believe that God reveals himself through His Creation, and that at least some truths about Him can be learned by studying Nature, physics, cosmology, etc. This view is evidenced by Biblical verses such as ...

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Revelation, Revelation - Visitations, Revelation - Verbal, Revelation - Aristotelian rationalism, Revelation - Non-Verbal propositional, Revelation - Through historical development of faith, Revelation - Latter Day Saint concept of Revelation, Revelation - Existentialism

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