This sensitive work explores the perplexing issue of our knowledge of God. Must we line up with those who believe that any knowledge of God is impossible or should we agree with those who feel that knowledge of God is strongly established. David Platt, relying on neither formal proof nor appeal to revelation, argues for a creative middle ground where divinity manifests itself through intimations in experience.
"I especially applaud his questioning of the adequacy of the traditional alternative - either immediate apprehension or inference - in the approach to God and his search for a way beyond the two. These are rewarding essays." (John E. Smith, Yale University) "... a very interesting phenomenological description of types of religious experience." (Kathryn E. Tanner, Theology Today)