TY - JOUR
T1 - Blessed Are Those Who Have Not Seen and Yet Have Known By Faith
T2 - Knowledge, Faith, and Sight in the New Testament
AU - Boone, Mark J.
PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - The New Testament speaks of our having faith rather than sight. This distinction is not made to distinguish faith from knowledge. Rather, it is to distinguish one kind of knowledge from another. We may know by trust in reliable authority; this knowledge is necessarily secondhand, but it is knowledge all the same. This, I argue, is the New Testament idea of faith. Another way of knowing is firsthand. Sight in the New Testament, I argue, is a metonym for firsthand knowledge. In this article I consider the meaning of faith and sight in the relevant New Testament passages, with an extended exegesis of 2 Cor. 5:7 and Heb. 11:1.
AB - The New Testament speaks of our having faith rather than sight. This distinction is not made to distinguish faith from knowledge. Rather, it is to distinguish one kind of knowledge from another. We may know by trust in reliable authority; this knowledge is necessarily secondhand, but it is knowledge all the same. This, I argue, is the New Testament idea of faith. Another way of knowing is firsthand. Sight in the New Testament, I argue, is a metonym for firsthand knowledge. In this article I consider the meaning of faith and sight in the relevant New Testament passages, with an extended exegesis of 2 Cor. 5:7 and Heb. 11:1.
KW - 2 Corinthians 5:7
KW - Biblical Epistemology
KW - Hebrews 11:1
KW - Faith
KW - John 20:29
KW - Knowledge
KW - Sight
UR - https://brill.com/view/journals/evqu/91/2/evqu.91.issue-2.xml
UR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuHeur77FPE&list=PL0gapVBX3Jr9_e3tKoeLaiIPQk8Jrd08q&index=15
U2 - 10.1163/27725472-09102003
DO - 10.1163/27725472-09102003
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0014-3367
VL - 91
SP - 133
EP - 146
JO - Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology
JF - Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology
IS - 2
ER -