Explores divine truth-disclosure through general and special revelation, tradition, reason, and experience, probing propositional and personal dimensions alongside progressive and accommodated forms. Participants examine epistemological foundations in the imago Dei, noetic sin, Spirit-illumination, and faith, alongside covenantal, analogical, mystical, and eschatological modes of knowing. Integration unfolds via the unity of truth, critical correlation, and hermeneutical spiral, culminating in knowledge’s doxological, redemptive, and communal telos. Anchors Christian epistemology for education, ministry, and scholarship, equipping believers to participate in God’s mission of reconciling all things through renewed minds.
Taking Theology of Knowledge and Revelation prepares Christian teachers for Mentor Care by basing their advice on God’s truth-sharing, building toughness through the Spirit’s light and faith despite sin’s fog. Grasping how revelation grows and fits our limits grows patience for students’ struggles, while relationship-focused and picture-based knowing strengthens bonds. Connecting ideas through a mission-shaped insight loop fights exhaustion by refreshing minds in worship and tying lessons to God’s rescue plan. This setup keeps mentors emotionally full, professionally sharp, and community-strong, guaranteeing lasting impact, steady care, and happy endurance in helping others grow.
Theology of Knowledge and Revelation matters most for education students because it plants every subject in God’s own reveal, training future teachers to spot truth in a world of shifting opinions and pushy ideas. Unlike non-Christian views that split knowledge or crown human smarts alone, this class weaves Bible, world, history, and life under God’s lead, protecting honest thinking while showing humility toward truth tailored for us. It refreshes the mind for healing teaching, fights sin’s mental twists, and matches lessons to God’s goal, making sure education shapes full people for praise, sharing faith, and fixing society—not just picking up tricks.
The course weaves biblically-based ideas by planting knowledge in God’s rescue plan, shown as Scripture fills creation, culture, and friendships. It digs into God’s reveal through nature and Bible, matching the call to manage truth despite sin’s blur, while growing three-in-one relationships and bold truth-telling. Through picture-knowing and Spirit-light, students join creation care, healing bonds, and fresh creativity, turning teaching into full-team play in kingdom growth, where every truth honors God and lifts people up.
The course weaves missionally-driven ideas by soaking knowledge-seeking in missio Dei—God’s rescue mission to fix creation through Jesus. It confirms students’ “sent” calling via Spirit-led and promise-based knowing, building a life of spotting God’s moves in neighborhoods for real-life presence. Prayer habits and future hope grow grit against mind struggles, while picture-truth readies lifelong teaching leadership, empowering believers to share healing news, live caring endurance, and push kingdom refresh through complete, Spirit-powered growth.
The course weaves contextually-informed ideas by living out in-the-flesh knowing through truth fitted to our size, shaping God’s message for different cultures, groups, and views to build real ties. Students grow awareness through picture and promise ways, reading cross-culture flows and values to root knowledge in the Bible, while checking sin’s twists across settings. This builds caring dive-in, humble angle-switching, and Spirit-guided clarity, readying teachers to cross gaps, care for creation with rescue eyes, and push kingdom healing in all kinds of mission spots.
The course weaves interculturally-focused ideas by basing knowledge on Bible basics like God’s image and Pentecost’s mix-unity, readying students to spot self-centered bias through picture-reveal and Spirit-light despite sin’s haze. It grows clear talking via truth shaped for each place, while building real ties and heart through promise-based, humble cross-culture steps. This fights slant, lifts caring clarity, and pushes God’s join-up mission, letting teachers cheer differences and share rescue truth worldwide.
The course weaves practically-minded ideas by turning deep knowing into real skills for mission teaching, shaping pro identity through God-image care and right living despite sin’s haze. It sharpens thinking through insight loops for research-backed lessons, links faith to varied views through Bible truth shaped for context, and pushes fairness via rescue knowing. From tiny classroom moments to big culture shifts, students use Spirit-lit clarity, growing top work, answer-keeping, and healing leadership to live God’s mission in touchable, strong ways.
The course weaves experientially-transformed ideas by living knowledge through think-back loops of personal meet-ups, sparking pro wonder via Spirit-encounter despite sin’s haze. Students show full knowing by mixing fact-truths with promise-experiences, owning roles in God’s rescue plan through picture-steps and prayer habits. Balancing planned think-time with on-the-spot clarity, learners grow open-heart humility, refreshing minds for end-time sharing and mission staying-power.
