Synopsis: Can we know truth even though certain proof is
unattainable? Can we be known by Truth? Is there a relationship
between belief and truth, and if so, what is the nature of that
relationship? Do we need to have faith in reason and in real
meaning to be able to reason towards truth? These are the sorts of
questions this book seeks to address. In Faith's Knowledge, Paul
Tyson argues that all knowledge that aims at truth is always the
knowledge of faith. If this is the case, then--against our
modernist cultural assumptions about knowledge--truth cannot be had
by proof. Yet, if this is true, then mere information and simply
objective facts do not (for us as knowers) exist. Knowledge is
always embedded in belief, and knowledge and belief is always
expressed in relationships, histories, narratives, shared meanings,
and power. Hence, a theological sociology of knowledge emerges out
of these explorations in thinking about knowledge as a function of
faith. Endorsements: "I have never known anyone to wrestle so
seriously, so strenuously, or so studiously with matters of faith
as Paul Tyson. . . . Paul's reflections, climaxing in chapter 7 on
faith and medicine a . . ., represent theology at its most
honest--harrowing, hardheaded, heartbroken, and heartbreaking."
--Dave Andrews, author and peace and community justice activist
"Having developed an epistemological framework that rejects
relativism and overcomes the modern faith-rationality split,
Australia's up-and-coming philosophical theologian, Paul Tyson,
with careful argumentation and passionate applicatory discourse,
shows public truth in education and] health and global security is
not only possible within a Christian worldview, but it builds a
more humane society than the utilitarianism that currently blights
our social landscape. This book is for thinkers who wish to change
the world." --Charles Ringma, Professor Emeritus, Regent College
Author Biography: Paul Tyson is an Honorary Fellow in the School of
Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane.
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