Divine Revelation and Human Practice

Responsive and Imaginative Inspiration
A creative contribution to the doctrine of revelation, which develops an understanding of God's self-disclosure located in the participation of the ecclesial community in the trinitarian life of God.
This substantial work provides important and original proposals for rearticulating the doctrine of revelation. Taking Karl Barth's doctrine of the Word of God as his point of departure, and expanding upon the work of Michael Polanyi, Clark demonstrates the integral involvement of human imagination in the revelatory event. Addressing this theme, Clark engages with the work of Michael Polanyi, whose philosophy provides a potent resource for the task, such as Polanyi's theory of tacit knowledge and its implications on articulate knowledge.