Knowing Faith

After the Fact: Is God Incomprehensible? with Ronnie Kurtz


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Kyle Worley is joined by Ronni Kurtz to answer the question; what does incomprehensibility mean and is God incomprehensible?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

  • What does incomprehensibility mean?
  • Is God incomprehensible?
  • How would you encourage someone who is trying to comprehend who God is?

Helpful Definitions:

  • Immutable: God can’t change.
  • Incomprehensibility: There is an intellectual limitation by virtue of our being creatures that will not allow us to wrap our mind fully around God as He is as a Creator.
  • Comprehend: To surround.
  • Divine Accommodation: God reveals himself to us in creaturely language.

Guest Bio:

Ronni Kurtz serves as an Assistant Professor of Theology at Cedarville University.

He is the author of Fruitful Theology: How the Life of the Mind Leads to the Life of the Soul; Proclaiming the Triune God: The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Life of the Church; and Light Unapproachable: Divine Incomprehensibility and the Task of Theology.  

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

  • Exodus 33
  • “Light Unapproachable: Divine Incomprehensibility and the Task of Theology” by Ronni Kurtz

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