The incarnation and the knowability paradox

Jonathan Kvanvig

pp. 89-105

in: Joe Salerno (ed), Knowability and beyond, Synthese 173 (1), 2010.

Abstract

The best defense of the doctrine of the Incarnation implies that traditional Christianity has a special stake in the knowability paradox, a stake not shared by other theistic perspectives or by non-traditional accounts of the Incarnation. Perhaps, this stake is not even shared by antirealism, the view most obviously threatened by the paradox. I argue for these points, concluding that these results put traditional Christianity at a disadvantage compared to other viewpoints, and I close with some comments about the extent of the burden incurred.