Knowledge and Reason

Core tenets that state how religious truth can be known and what role reason, mysticism, direct experience or plain faith plays in knowing it. This includes tenets on the limits of human reason before the divine, the value of philosophical argument for or against a doctrine, the role of mystical or ecstatic experience as a source of knowledge, and doctrines that a truth is known only by revelation and cannot be reasoned to. A tenet about the content of what is known, such as the nature of the divine itself, is grouped under that content instead; this group holds tenets about the manner and possibility of knowing, not the knowledge's own subject matter.