ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on knowledge of God which is possible on the basis of human reason alone and have held to one side the question of revelation and faith, mysticism, prophecy and theological wisdom. We call knowledge 'revealed' or 'supernatural' rather, because it transcends the capacity of our natural human faculties of sensation and abstraction. The knowledge of God which we have in transcendental abstraction is indirect and by inference, and it does not present to us an authentic vision of the divine essence, in the way we 'see' intellectually the essence of a triangle or a tetrahedron. Just like ordinary intellectual knowledge, revelation depends on connaturality and the sensation and abstraction it makes possible. Generally political prophecy and its proper, sociological interpretation does not really lead us to any political conclusions which we could not have reached on the basis of a purely scientific sociology and a purely philosophical social ethics.
