ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by understanding an unfamiliar situation in terms of the existing schemata but in the process of learning, the new situation soon acquires a schema of its own and the world model is reshaped. If revelation is to conform to the pattern of the ordinary processes of understanding, the knowledge of God must first become part of the world models and then begin to shape them. The chapter explains how this takes place and talks about the way the model of the world in people's heads is organized. It then delves more deeply into the structure of 'tacit knowledge' and the schemata which compose it. If the value or salience of each piece of information is an important element in tacit knowledge, it must have a considerable effect on the way we understand and experience the world. But value and importance belong to the affective domain of psychology, that concerned with the influence of emotion on judgement.
