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Which is the official position : Classical, evidential, presuppositional, or other ? From what I've seen it seems to be evidential, but I don't see why it can't be others also. I think this falls under epistemology and prolegomena. I could be wrong but from what I can understand as a layman, Al-Ghazali was viewed as a fideist for not believing in reason enough over faith; whereas it's kind of odd that an evidentialist method would be Lutheran since it requires reason and argumentation for your position, in other words, reason leading to faith which sounds Roman Catholic. So the Reformed tend to be fideist like Ghazali (I'm sure they aren't fideist but that's how evidentialists would portray them), while the evidentialist types tend to be more like Ibn Sina or Al Razi. I tend to think Lev Shestov was right ( Лев Шестов) . Then the other question is the EO position, seems to be more Reformed/fideist, because of Gregory Palamas, God is knowable through his energies, independent of reason (theognosia)
Unmediated Grace - Glory to God For All Things " True knowledge is participation, a communion. It is in this sense that Christ says, “This is eternal life; that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent” (John 17:3)." According to a book on Hermann Sasse I have, I think he would agree with Palamas here that we have knowledge via participation. I think the author of the article on his epistemology missed a hint when Sasse mentions that the God of Aquinas would cease to be God if he heard a prayer and at the same time, Sasse considered the liturgy to be prayer (in essay on Sasse on worship) (Sasse a man of our Times); therefore, it's basically Palamas position; (Barlaam his opponent was also a Aquinas acolyte) that we participate/commune with God through the real presence which is the heart of the liturgy basically through God's energies, and therefore the "dim spark" of the knowledge of God we have gets more tinder the closer we are to the real presence.
Fideism - Wikipedia
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Lev Shestov - Wikipedia
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