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In the previous chapter, I presented an account of von Balthasar’s views on, what he takes to be, the necessary links between holiness and any authentic Christian theology. Even though he considers holiness to be an essential component of both the discipline of Theology and the lives of genuine Christian theologians, he nevertheless maintains that theology is scientific. The natural sciences, which are usually taken to constitute the paradigm of scientific enquiry, concern what we can know about the natural world. The natural sciences appear to have their own-and, apparently, unprecedentedly successful-methodology for providing us with knowledge. Hence, science makes unmistakably epistemological claims, relying on various epistemological assumptions, which many people seem to take without question as establishing what a rationally acceptable epistemology must consist in. Clearly, to the extent that von Balthasar regards authentic Christian theology as a science, he assumes some particular epistemological standpoint. And, certainly, his views on the links between theology and holiness have profound epistemological implications.
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Harrison, V.S. (2000). An Internalist Epistemology. In: The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness. Studies in Philosophy and Religion, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0872-3_5
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