LessonsDivine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and NamingQuiz

الدليل العقلي والدليل الشرعي
Rational evidence and revealed evidence.

The order of creation provides a rational line of argument for divine knowledge, power and will. The explicit articulation of further attributes and names is also a matter of revelation. Reason can additionally examine whether an alleged impossibility really follows from an affirmed attribute.

For example, an objection to divine hearing that assumes every hearer must have human ears already assumes what needs proof. An instrument of perception is not identical to perception as an attribute. This allows transmitted affirmation to be considered alongside rational transcendence.

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The respective roles of reason and revelation

Divine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and Naming

الدليل العقلي والدليل الشرعي
Rational evidence and revealed evidence.

The order of creation provides a rational line of argument for divine knowledge, power and will. The explicit articulation of further attributes and names is also a matter of revelation. Reason can additionally examine whether an alleged impossibility really follows from an affirmed attribute.

For example, an objection to divine hearing that assumes every hearer must have human ears already assumes what needs proof. An instrument of perception is not identical to perception as an attribute. This allows transmitted affirmation to be considered alongside rational transcendence.