The incarnation and the knowability paradox

作者：Kvanvig Jonathan^*

来源：Synthese, 2010, 173(1): 89-105.

DOI：10.1007/s11229-009-9678-6

• Knowability
• Incarnation
• Traditional Christianity
• Anti-realism
• Omniscience
• Essential properties

The best defense of the doctrine of the Incarnation implies that traditional Christianity has a special stake in the knowability paradox, a stake not shared by other theistic perspectives or by non-traditional accounts of the Incarnation. Perhaps, this stake is not even shared by antirealism, the view most obviously threatened by the paradox. I argue for these points, concluding that these results put traditional Christianity at a disadvantage compared to other viewpoints, and I close with some comments about the extent of the burden incurred.

• 出版日期2010-3