The Constructive Nature of Revelation Part 2: What Does "Constructive" Mean?

A first exploration of revelation as a constructive process and a constructed product

In our last essay we discussed the reasons why it’s beneficial to study revelation before we study other things in the gospel. The main point is that understanding your way of knowing something can help you avoid puzzles that arise not because something is puzzling, but because there’s something weird about the way you come to know it. More about that with lots of examples from neuroscience and the gospel in the actual essay here.

With that background, today we’re going to move more officially into our study of revelation by introducing the first principle of revelation in more detail. I covered the principles of revelation very briefly here, and we’ll be doing sequences of essays on each principle, along with sequences on the many related issues that the principles raise.