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Henry Thomas Blackaby (15 April 1935 – 10 February 2024) was a Canadian evangelical pastor who was the founder of Blackaby Ministries International. [1] Most known for his best selling study called Experiencing God , he also authored many other books and articles.
Knowing God is a book by J. I. Packer, a British-born Canadian Christian theologian. It is his best-known work, having sold over 1,000,000 copies in North America alone. [ 1 ] Originally written as a series of articles for the Evangelical Magazine , it was first published as a book in 1973 and has been reprinted several times.
The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer. The underlying message of this work suggests that the way to know God is to abandon consideration of God's particular activities and attributes, and be courageous enough to surrender one's mind and ego to the realm of "unknowing", at which point one may begin to glimpse the nature of God.
Knowing How to Know is a book by the writer Idries Shah published posthumously by Octagon Press in 1998. A paperback edition was published in 2000. [1]Shortly before he died, Shah stated that his books form a complete course that could fulfil the function he had fulfilled while alive.
Paul Helm explains, "Calvin’s use of the term 'sense' signals that the knowledge of God is a common human endowment; mankind is created not only as capable of knowing God, but as actually knowing him." [13] According to this tradition, there is no inculpable or nonresistant nonbelief.
The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth (generally referred to simply as The Fundamentals) is a set of ninety essays published between 1910 and 1915 by the Testimony Publishing Company of Chicago.
Other means of reconciling God's omniscience with human free will have been proposed. Some have attempted to redefine or reconceptualize free will: God can know in advance what I will do, because free will is to be understood only as freedom from coercion, and anything further is an illusion.
Ignosticism and theological noncognitivism are similar although whereas the ignostic says "every theological position assumes too much about the concept of God", [1] the theological noncognitivist claims to have no concept whatever to label as "a concept of God", [2] but the relationship of ignosticism to other nontheistic views is less clear.