Blessed Are Those Who Have Not Seen and Yet Have Known By Faith: Knowledge, Faith, and Sight in the New Testament

The New Testament speaks of our having faith rather than sight. This distinction is not made to distinguish faith from knowledge. Rather, it is to distinguish one kind of knowledge from another. We may know by trust in reliable authority; this knowledge is necessarily secondhand, but it is knowledge...

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1. VerfasserIn: Boone, Mark J. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2020
In: The Evangelical quarterly
Jahr: 2020, Band: 91, Heft: 2, Seiten: 133-146
IxTheo Notationen:HC Neues Testament
weitere Schlagwörter:B 2 Corinthians 5:7
B FAITH (Christianity)
B Bible. New Testament
B Bible. Hebrews
B Hebrews 11:1
B METONYMS
B Apostolate (Christian theology)
B Faith
B Knowledge
B John 20:29
B Biblical Epistemology
B Sight
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Zusammenfassung:The New Testament speaks of our having faith rather than sight. This distinction is not made to distinguish faith from knowledge. Rather, it is to distinguish one kind of knowledge from another. We may know by trust in reliable authority; this knowledge is necessarily secondhand, but it is knowledge all the same. This, I argue, is the New Testament idea of faith. Another way of knowing is firsthand. Sight in the New Testament, I argue, is a metonym for firsthand knowledge. In this article I consider the meaning of faith and sight in the relevant New Testament passages, with an extended exegesis of 2 Cor. 5:7 and Heb. 11:1.
ISSN:2772-5472
Enthält:Enthalten in: The Evangelical quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09102003