2025/04/21 by N. Gray Sutanto · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Theology and Philosophy of Evil #Augustinian Studies and Theology #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
paper · doi:10.1017/9781009527910
openalex publication_date 2025/04/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
How should one make sense of the Christian confession that God has instilled a 'sense of divinity' in every person? While other approaches have identified the sense with a perceptual or cognitive faculty or with the empirical reports of theistic belief, this Element advances an affective model of general revelation, which draws from the writings of the neo-Calvinist branch of the Reformed tradition. The author argues that the sense of divinity refers to an implanted 'feeling of divinity', a sensus numinis, and that this model makes better sense of the Christian witness, theologically re-orients the empirical findings from the cognitive science of religion, and eludes influential objections against the doctrine of general revelation.