Thus, Hosea emphasized two very significant theological terms: ḥesed, or "Covenant love," and "knowledge of God".
Through self-knowledge, the devout mystic strives to attain knowledge of God Himself.
To most Muslim scholars, the science of tawhid is the systematic theology through which a better knowledge of God may be reached, but to the Ṣūfīs, knowledge of God can be reached only through religious experience and direct vision.
In contrast to Luther, Calvin began his Institutes not with justification by faith but with the knowledge of God.
The group had gathered to consider questions of morality and revealed religion (knowledge of God derived through revelation).
There can be no knowledge of matters allegedly existing beyond these categories; thus, there can be no knowledge of God and, hence, no theological knowledge.
The Jewish scholar argues that it is contemplation not of the cosmos but of Jewish history that procures knowledge of God.
Maʿrifa, ( Arabic: "interior knowledge") in Islam, the mystical knowledge of God or the "higher realities" that is the ultimate goal of followers of Sufism.
The record of her ecstatic experiences in The Dialogue illustrates her doctrine of the "inner cell" of the knowledge of God and of self into which she withdrew.
Philosophically, their qualified monism and their conception of bhakti (devotion) as an intuitive and loving knowledge of God show the influence of the 11th 12th-century 11th 12th-century
Thus, all knowledge of God depends upon the description that he is "the thing than which a greater cannot be conceived".
