ABSTRACT

This chapter provides a coherent picture of the way the separate disciplines of theology, philosophy, social science and the natural sciences relate to one another. It aims to justify the assertions that the social sciences do furnish raw material for theology and that the theory of human learning presented can play a key part in developing the theological doctrine of revelation. But further, the possibility of the knowing God supplies the foundation for theology itself. If it is possible to develop a theory of revelation on the basis of these investigations in psychology and philosophy, this same theory will tell people something about the way theology needs to be done, about how and where they can expect to find the knowledge of God and what are its limits and constraints. Then, the chapter discusses what the theory of knowledge can suggest about the methodology of theology itself.