He Is There and He Is Not Silent

The title of Schaeffer’s third book and his argument for the epistemological necessity of divine revelation. The core claim: if the infinite-personal God does not exist, you cannot account for the fact that you know anything at all. Not religious knowledge; any knowledge. The categories you use to think. The moral absolutes you rely on while pretending not to. The fact that language works across minds. The fact that particulars and universals have anything to do with each other. None of this is self-explanatory. None of it comes free with the hardware. Schaeffer traces the problem of knowledge (epistemology) through philosophy’s failed attempts to solve “the problem of the one and the many” and concludes that only the Trinity; a God who is simultaneously one (unity) and many (diversity in three persons); provides the metaphysical grounding for human knowledge. Communication is possible because a personal God has already spoken. He is there. And He is not silent.