{"id":705,"date":"2008-12-14T15:03:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2008-12-14T15:03:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T22:03:39","slug":"bloesch-on-epistemic-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2008\/12\/14\/bloesch-on-epistemic-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloesch on Epistemic Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>\u201cThe Christian does not pretend to know all the answers to life\u2019s questions, but he does claim to know some of the answers to the final questions, those that determine the direction of one\u2019s eternal destiny.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Yet he makes this claim not on the basis of his own ingenuity or intelligence but on the basis of God\u2019s revelation in the Scriptures.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Moreoever, he does not boast that he \u2018possesses\u2019 these answers, for they reside in the mind of Christ which is made available to him time and again by the Spirit.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Donald Bloesch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ground-Certainty-Donald-G-Bloesch\/dp\/1579108776\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1229292173&amp;sr=8-2\">The Ground of Certainty<\/a>, at p. 76.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Christian does not pretend to know all the answers to life\u2019s questions, but he does claim to know some of the answers to the final questions, those that determine the direction of one\u2019s eternal destiny.\u00a0 Yet he makes this claim not on the basis of his own ingenuity or intelligence but on the basis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epistemology","category-spirituality","category-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-bn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}