Month: May 2018
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“Is an objective and absolute knowledge possible? What can we know?”: A NORMATIVE APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF EPISTEMOLOGY
Introduction[1] There are various approaches to the epistemological treatment of knowledge: the normative approach, the descriptive approach and the moral approach or virtue epistemology. The normative approach is the historically dominant position which holds that for something to be knowledge, it must satisfy certain epistemic principles or criteria. In this approach, the attempt…
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Messiah in Isaiah 7:14
Introduction Many ink has been spilled on this single verse. The one important question that occupies studies in this single verse over the centuries has been the messianic character of the text. Is Isaiah 7:14 Messianic? William Most argues thus: Catholic scholars at one time used to defend the messianic nature of that text. Then…
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Dei Verbum 12 and Interpretation of the Bible in the Church (PBC 1993) III: comparisons
Introduction The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum, DV) and The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church (PBC 1993) are two documents that have many things in common as well as some noticeable differences. It must be noted clearly from the onset that PBC 1993 is an expansion of Dei Verbum 12. An…
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The Imperatives of Matt 28:19-20 and Evangelization today[1]
Introductory Remarks This article above every other minor leitmotif aims at highlighting the didactic motive, that is the character of teaching that should accompany every effort of evangelization. Many documents have already been advanced in furtherance of the Church´s mission of evangelization. Beginning from the scriptures itself the fount and summit of all theology[2], in…
Fr. Valentine Umoh 