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Review: Preaching And Preachers, Paul R. Fink Oct 1982

Review: Preaching And Preachers, Paul R. Fink

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Agnosticism: Kant, W. David Beck Jan 1981

Agnosticism: Kant, W. David Beck

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This chapter identifies the results of Kant's philosophical system on the contemporary discussion concerning an inerrant revelation. Knowledge, for Kant, is possible only as the forms and categories of the mind organize the raw data of the senses. Beyond this phenomenal world, the mind can only postulate what must or ought to be. It cannot know what is. The first postulate of this practical reasoning is freedom. The individual is autonomous, knows the good, and is capable of willing and doing as he ought.

Within such an epistemological framework, revelation becomes unnecessary, useless, and unverifiable. Inerrancy is not only false …