moritherapy/philosophy

From the page: "A number of attempts have recently been made to trace a connection between religion and epistemology. Clearly, whatever theory of knowledge theologians rely on is crucial to the course they will pursue. A claim to know God or that God knows me cannot be understood at all unless I have some idea of what knowing is, since the hidden presuppositions in any theory of knowledge will inevitably govern the type of belief that I hold. This article presents two outcomes for religion, (1) that of following a traditional Wittgensteinian epistemology, and (2) that of carrying through the implications of the New Critical Realist epistemology. Whereas the first epistemology regards knowledge as distinct from illusion, a matter of grasping the facts, for the second it is a continual struggle, an endless re-aligning of them. 'Knowing God', therefore, could be either a matter of confronting an unchanging reality, that exists remote from the contingencies of human culture, or a struggle to conceptualize and control the changing aspects of culture."