Biblical Knowing

Scripture repeatedly returns to the question of what people know and how they come to know it, from the forbidden fruit to the call for Israel to become a discerning people. The Bible also shows that mistaken knowing carries serious costs. Most readers want to be sure that what they understand at their core is not fundamentally wrong, and this book speaks to that desire.

Rather than only asking what Israel knew, the author focuses on how Israel was meant to know. Drawing on the pivotal moments of knowledge in the nation's history as the biblical narrative presents them, he builds a broad account of knowing grounded in Scripture's own perspective.

The book also places this account alongside modern philosophy, which has its own strong claims about knowledge. It examines Reformed Epistemology, scientific approaches to knowledge, Virtue Epistemology, and the method of Analytic Theology, judging where each agrees with Scripture and where it departs from it.

Finally, the author considers what sound knowing looks like in practical settings: in the work of theology, in the church's teaching and preaching, and in pastoral counseling.