This volume will be an important addition to anyone interested in the given topic, both students and established scholars alike ... the volume should be an essential resource in the field for years to come.

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William J. Abraham is Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at Southern Methodist University. His publications include Divine Revelation and the Limits of Historical Criticism (2000) and Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology (OUP, 1998). Frederick D. Aquino is Professor of Theology and Philosophy at the Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University. He specializes in religious epistemology, the epistemology of theology, John Henry Newman, and Maximus the confessor. He is the co-editor of Receptions of Newman (OUP, 2015).

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This handbook considers the epistemology of theology, featuring 41 chapters on theology relative epistemic concepts and general epistemic concepts as related to theology, and on studies of individual theologians from St Paul through to Hans Urs von Balthasar and of contemporary movements such as liberation theology and feminism.

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List of Contributors
Introduction: The Epistemology of Theology
PART I: EPISTEMIC CONCEPTS WITHIN THEOLOGY
1: John Greco: Knowledge of God
2: Sandra Menssen and Thomas Sullivan: Revelation and Scripture
3: Lara Buchak: Reason and Faith
4: Thomas D. Senor: The Experiential Grounding of Religious Belief
5: John Cottingham: Saints and Saintliness
6: Linda Zagzebski: Authority in Religious Communities
7: Paul K. Moser: The Inner Witness of the Spirit
8: Mark Wynn: Tradition
9: Colin M. McGuigan and Brad Kallenberg: Ecclesial Practices
10: Frederick D. Aquino: Spiritual Formation, Authority, and Discernment
PART II: GENERAL EPISTEMIC CONCEPTS RELATED TO THEOLOGY
11: Jonathan L. Kvanvig: Understanding
12: Stephen R. Grimm: Wisdom in Theology
13: Jennifer Lackey: The Epistemology of Testimony and Religious Belief
14: Jason Baehr: Virtue
15: Trent Dougherty: Evidence and Theology
16: Michael Bergmann: Foundationalism
17: Christopher J. Insole: Realism and Anti-realism
18: liam Dunaway and John Hawthorne: Scepticism
19: Nathan L. King and Thomas Kelly: Diasgreement and the Epistemoogy of Theology
PART III: SAMPLINGS FROM THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION
20: Paul K. Moser: Paul the Apostle
21: Robert M. Berchman: Origen of Alexandria
22: Scott MacDonald: Augustine
23: Frederick D. Aquino: Maximus the Confessor
24: William J. Abraham: Symeon the New Theologian
25: David Brown: Anselm
26: James Brent, O.P.: Thomas Aquinas
27: Scott M. Williams: John Duns Scotus
28: A. S. McGrade: Richard Hooker
29: Steven Payne: Teresa of Avila
30: Douglas M. Koskela: John Wesley
31: William J. Wainwright: Jonathan Edwards
32: Kevin W. Hector: Friedrich Schleiermacher
33: M. G. Piety: Søren Kierkegaard
34: Cyril O'Regan: John Henry Newman
35: Paul T. Nimmo: Karl Barth
36: Victoria S. Harrison: Hans Urs von Balthasar
Part IV: EMERGING CONVERSATIONS
37: Devin Singh: Liberation Theology
38: J. Aaron Simmons: Continental Philosophy
39: Paul L. Gavrilyuk: Modern Orthodox Thinkers
40: Harriet Harris: The Epistemology of Feminist Theology
41: James K. A. Smith: Pentecostalism