TY  - JOUR
ID  - digilib25457
UR  - https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/25457/
IS  - No. 21
A1  - Sirait, Sangkot
N2  - 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.
VL  - Vol. 4
TI  - Islamic Theology: an Epistemological Criticism
AV  - public
EP  - 28
Y1  - 2014/01/03/
PB  - IISTE
JF  - Research on Humanities and Social Sciences
KW  - Theology
KW  -  Methods
KW  -  Postmodernism
SN  - 2225-0484
SP  - 20
ER  -