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    Revelation must be described as a paradoxical dialectic o... — Carmelics
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    Revelation must be described as a paradoxical dialectic of simultaneous unveiling and veiling

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    • 1.God is Wholly Other
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    • 2.As Wholly Other, God is unknowable for humans
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    • 3.Yet revelation imparts knowledge of God to humans
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    • 1.Aquinas's analogical predication allows genuine knowledge of God without contradiction, making paradox unnecessary rather than inevitable.
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    • 2.If human intellect can receive divine form through analogy, revelation can be genuinely transparent without requiring a simultaneous veiling.
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    • 1.William Alston's doxastic practice framework treats religious experience as epistemically direct perception, not paradoxical mediation.
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    • 2.If mystical perception yields non-inferential justified belief, the veil-unveil dialectic collapses into ordinary epistemology of perception.
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    Revelation as Dialectical Presence. This model intends to capture the thought of Karl Barth—who is one of the most influential figures of revelation-theology in the twentieth century—and his followers in the school of “dialectical theology”. For Barth, revelation is a “non-objectifiable” encounter with God himself in Christ, an event that is mediated by the Bible and the church’s proclamation about Christ. The Bible itself, however, is not revelation but merely the channel through which revelati
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