Knowing God as an Evangelical

1 Evangelicals and Epistemology. - The Need for a Canonically Based Epistemological Approach. - Scope and Delimitations. - What Is Evangelical? . - Canonical-Epistemological Methodology. - Epistemological Assumptions. - Hermeneutical Assumptions. - Canonical-Epistemological Method. - 2 Theological Knowledge Formation in Contemporary Evangelical Theology. - The Founding Fathers of Evangelicalism. - Early Trends in Evangelical Epistemology. - Locating Contemporary Evangelical Epistemology. - Evidentialist Foundationalism. - Ontological and Epistemological Assumptions. - Formation of Theological Knowledge. - Proper Functionalism. - Ontological and Epistemological Assumptions. - Formation of Theological Knowledge. - Postfoundationalism. - Ontological and Epistemological Assumptions. - Formation of Theological Knowledge. - Conflicting Models. - Exploring a Possible Resolution. - 3 and as Prototypical Case Studies for the Formation of Theological Knowledge in the Bible. - Introducing Cognitive Linguistics. - Applying Cognitive Linguistics to the Bible. - Old Testament Cognitive Analysis. - Profile-Base-Cognitive Domain Relations. - Unification of Profile-Base-Domain Relations. - Prototypical Scenario. - The Schematic Meaning of . - New Testament Cognitive Analysis. - Profile-Base-Cognitive Domain Relations. - Unification of Profile-Base-Domain Relations. - Prototypical Scenario. - The Schematic Meaning of . - Conclusions. - 4 Towards a Canonical Model of Theological Knowledge Formation. - Theological Knowledge Formation Entails Embodied Awareness. - Theological Knowledge Formation Is Relational-Participative. - Theological Knowledge Formation Is Revelational. - Theological Knowledge Formation Is Temporal-Historical. - Theological Knowledge Formation Is Both Communitarian and Individual. - Theological Knowledge Formation Is Fostered by Mission. - Theological Knowledge Formation Is Fostered by Covenantal Obedience. - A Critical Conversation of the Evangelical Epistemological Models. - Comparison of Ontological and Epistemological Assumptions. - Comparison of the Formation of Theological Knowledge. - 5 Conclusions and Recommendations. - Appendix A: Meaning of in Lexicons and Theological Dictionaries. - Appendix B: Trajector-Landmark-Cognitive Domain Relationship for . - Appendix C: Meaning of in Lexicons and Theological Dictionaries. - Appendix D: Trajector-Landmark-Cognitive Domain Relationship for . - Appendix E: Occurrences of Temporal and Atemporal Profiles for and .