relation: https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/25457/
title: Islamic Theology: an Epistemological Criticism
creator: Sirait, Sangkot
subject: Agama Dan Filsafat
description: 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.
publisher: IISTE
date: 2014-01-03
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/25457/1/Sangkot%20Sirait%20-%20Islamic%20Theology%20an.pdf
identifier:   Sirait, Sangkot  (2014) Islamic Theology: an Epistemological Criticism.  Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 4 (No. 21).  pp. 20-28.  ISSN 2225-0484