The purpose of the theological study does not fit into this plan of the human desire to increase the amount of constant / established / in the objectified knowledge, as by the relative moment of the cognitive process the volume of the absolute truth increases. Gnosiology is an irreplaceable part of philosophy as a science. Nevertheless, a number of prominent theologians (from the patristic period) and later religious thinkers develop certain gnosiological views, which, according to their philosophical position, are distinguished by their great diversity and variety. But these are private philosophical-religious views and opinions, not an officially accepted theological theory of knowledge.

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God-revealed truth, in the religious understanding of the world, is not a concept or part of any gnosiological theory or philosophical system that builds upon the experience of knowledge. In the specific, Christian sense of the word, it is included in the doctrine of the Word of God. John 1:18; 17:17). These are not the kind of abducted ideas of God that are moving in the sphere of philosophical demand and are at the basis of philosophical idealism (as, for example, Plato, Schelling, Hegel), but are the everlasting truths of God's being, the Logos, the attitude of God to man and the world. That is why, in the theology, if we express the words of Pascal, the doctrine of the Logos, the idea and the concepts of God do not treat the God of the philosophers, but the living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, this God who lives among us in the person of Jesus of Nazareth . The supernatural truth is the truth about God, created and formulated in the process of the Lord's worship, in which man is the object of divine revelation and providence. The highest degree of this supernatural revelation and self-revelation on the part of God is the incarnation of the Son of God, of the Word / Logos / in the historical person of Jesus Christ, in whom the love, will, and words of God have a specific historical expression.

On the other hand, Orthodox theology in its system (of course, not philosophical positions) permits the knowledge of material reality by the light and truth-seeking human reason. According to the systematic presentation of St. John Damascene, "nothing is more valuable than knowledge, for it is the light of the soul-endowed soul, and ignorance is darkness. . . Knowledge I call the true knowledge of the existing things "(31); but it is wrong when it comes to something that does not exist and is not in it reality. The source of true knowledge is in keeping with the existing. Inadequate knowledge is associated with the non-existent. The soul is given the mind, which it can see as the human eyes, and is capable of knowing and perceiving the knowledge and truths of the things that exist. St. John Damaskin, in his reflections on "Philosophy," opposes categorically any kind of agnosticism, according to which philosophy and cognition are unable to express the essence of phenomena through concepts . "We are capable of knowing the truth and acting in accordance with it. This recognition also includes the possibility of God's knowledge. We think of God as truth and every move forward in knowing the truth and realizing it in life is a movement towards God . But whether there will always be obscurity and areas in the infinity of the universe that will not be touched (either empirically or experimentally, and perhaps only hypothetically from private science) is a matter that is a scientific problem in gonseology.

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