ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the implications for theology and explores the process of human learning in more detail. It sets out a number of philosophical issues which arise naturally from the account of perception and learning. All learning is a balance between assimilation and accommodation. In order to learn something new the learner must do something to the new knowledge. To be learned, knowledge must be changed by assimilation to the schemata of the learner. Not only is the new knowledge changed, however, but the schema is also changed in order to accommodate the new knowledge. Learning changes the learner. This poses an important question for the study of revelation. Revelation is a personal dialogue between God and individuals, God and communities in which God accommodates to the conditions of the time in order to preserve human freedom. This conclusion has potentially an enormous impact on theology.
