ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that our knowledge of God and our love of the Other are radically integrated. A merely intellectual appreciation of God is simply impossible. The theological significance of this is that the ethical attitude associated with knowing God is one characterised by a humble love and service of the Other. The biblical paradigm, epistemology and ethics are not two distinct disciplines in which, for instance, our knowledge of God and our obedience to God can be separated. The single phenomenon is simply the rationality or conceptual metaphors which govern our thinking and praxis. The significance of these descriptions is that it is the same metaphor or virtue that leads to both our epistemic and ethical evaluation. The terminology is taken from Zagzebski as concepts of virtues, describes them as being a success term. Hence, our knowledge of God and our love of the Other are located in our participation in the one rationality of Jesus Christ.
