ABSTRACT
The possibility that voices might be revelatory of God is considered first from an evidentialist perspective, evaluating critically the rational content of what is heard, and then from an incarnational theological perspective of human receptivity to God. Whilst both approaches have their place, the latter is found to better affirm both a Christian theological anthropology and the possibility of revelation as an experience of something that “God does”. Voice hearing of diverse phenomenological kinds may – sometimes – be an experience of spiritual hearing. Whether the voice is heard out loud, as a perception-like phenomenon in external space, or as an inner voice with more thought-like qualities, it is potentially an experience of God within – akin to the quest for God in Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle. Voices may sometimes be at the same time both human thoughts and divine speech.
