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    It is not the case that Revelation must be described as a paradoxical dialectic of simultaneous unveiling and veiling

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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