@article{digilib25457,
          volume = {Vol. 4},
          number = {No. 21},
           month = {January},
          author = {Sangkot Sirait},
           title = {Islamic Theology: an Epistemological Criticism},
       publisher = {IISTE},
            year = {2014},
         journal = {Research on Humanities and Social Sciences},
           pages = {20--28},
        keywords = {Theology, Methods, Postmodernism},
             url = {https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/25457/},
        abstract = {The purpose of epistemology is to question what is knowledge and how to acquire its nature as well as to
question the validity of knowledge. The Islamic theology is a main source of Muslim?s knowledge stemming
from revelation. A method of acquiring knowledge is by involving language games, while its truth is regarded
as an absolute truth with a more logical verification. Such an epistemological structure countains some foul,
especially when we make religion as a means to solve social problems, such as poverty, disrespecting plurality,
environmental disaster, or social conflicts. Therefore a Muslim is obliged to review all aspects of Islamic
theology by borrowing social sciences, methods to explain a religious phenomenon. Then, he or she tries to
reformulate a new structure of Islamic theology in accordance with modern development. Some of ?mending?
offered herein are a question of what is a community role to formulate a faith as well as a need of holistic
epistemology form, and even of a non-foundational theology which did not justify certain faiths.
Keywords: Theology, Methods, Postmodernism.}
}