Thursday 4 December 2014

REVELATION

Key aspects of this Unit: 

This topic looks at the idea of God’s self revelation to humanity. 

It explores the reasonableness of the evidence of revelation, and why revelation is questioned as a real experience. 


  • General revelation. Candidates will be expected to understand God’s revelation through scripture, nature and conscience; 
  • Special revelation. Candidates will be expected to understand God’s revelation through a direct meeting, vision or dream, including examples from scripture, worship and prayer; 
  • the power of any type of revelation, and its impact on those receiving the revelation; 
  • what is learnt of God – qualities of God such as supremacy, immanence, transcendence, personal nature, impersonal nature, omnipotence,omniscience and benevolence; 
  • the comparative strengths and weaknesses of general versus special revelation; 
  • the issue of reality or illusion in terms of any revelation; 
  • alternative explanations for claims of revelation; the question of whether accepting the reality of revelation leads to problems for the believer, such as why believers have different ideas about God.