What does it mean to have knowledge of God? Is that similar to the same kind of knowledge we have in the sciences or things like that?

Is there a dichotomy between faith and God and knowledge of God?

How does our knowledge of God connect with our spiritual lives fundamentally being a matter of the heart?

We answer these questions and more with our guest today, Dr. Tim Pickervans, author of a terrific new book called

Knowledge for the Love of God. I'm your host Scott Ray.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell. And this is Think Biblically, a podcast at

tablet school theology here at Iowa University. Tim, thanks for being with us.

Delighted your book is terrific.

And I want to get right into the background to it

and what caused you to write this.

You say that the stuff that's the substance of this came out of more a personal

crisis that you had when you were a doctoral student at the University of Texas.

Yeah, that's right.

So, first of all, thanks for inviting me on them. It's a pleasure to be here.

You know, I do start the book. It's a story that organizes around the spring and summer of 2006. that was a pivotal period of my life and I

there are kind of two things really to talk about one is what was

happening and the other is what was happening in a deeper sense.

So what was happening just in the factual history of the thing is that in the middle of your

doctoral program at the University of Texas anyway you have to submit this thing called a

prospectus which is basically a part of your dissertation plus an outline of your

dissertation the thing that you're going to be working on for a number of years and

you usually build up to this for about a year and in January of the year that it was due at the beginning of April,

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