How Is Revealed Knowledge Justified | Professor Mats Wahlberg

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This lecture was given on June 5, 2023, at Oxford University For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Mats Wahlberg is an associate professor of systematic theology at Umeå University, Sweden. He has written two books: Reshaping Natural Theology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Revelation as Testimony (Eerdmans, 2014), as well as many scholarly articles. His research about the problem of evil has received funding from the John Templeton Foundation. In 2021, he was the visiting Aquinas Chair at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome.

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1:00.3	It's great to see you all here at Blackfriars.
1:04.3	So the main problem I'm going to address tonight is the question of how the beliefs that we hold on the basis of
1:11.7	divine revelation can be epistemically justified. And St. Thomas Aquinas clearly thinks
1:18.5	that they can be justified. In fact, he thinks that beliefs based on God's testimony
1:23.7	are more certain than beliefs held on other grounds.
1:28.3	In this talk, I will argue that Aquinas' view on this matter is defensible in the arena of modern analytic epistemology.
1:38.3	Since Aquinas' view of faith is somewhat complex, however, a number of different interpretations of the epistemological
1:45.6	principles behind it have emerged. After having discussed three common interpretations,
1:52.8	I will suggest a fourth interpretation that in my view is preferable. In this interpretation
1:59.2	which I will call the testimonial interpretation, Aquinas' account of faith provides, according to my view, a convincing explanation of how Christian beliefs are justified.
2:11.6	But before I can discuss this explanation and analyze various interpretations of Aquinas, I must do a couple of things.
2:20.3	There. So first, I need to say something about Aquinas' view of reason and knowledge in general.
2:27.3	Second, I will give an overview of what Aquinas explicitly says about Christian faith and faiths assent to what God has revealed.
2:36.0	After this, we are ready to investigate the epistemological principles behind Aquinas' view of Christian faith and discuss different interpretations.
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