The ways to attain theism can be divided into four general approaches: rationalism, narrativeism, empiricism, and intuitionism. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi is one of the Ash'arite thinkers who believes in the rationalist approach in theology and considers reasoning and proof a More
The ways to attain theism can be divided into four general approaches: rationalism, narrativeism, empiricism, and intuitionism. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi is one of the Ash'arite thinkers who believes in the rationalist approach in theology and considers reasoning and proof as the only way to know God. Accordingly, he believes that the cognition that is obtained for us about God Almighty is a general and indeterminate knowledge.
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's rationalist approach can be criticized from three perspectives. The most important drawbacks of such an approach are the methodological confinement as well as disregard for the knowledge by presence (consciousness) and intuitive approach as the most valuable way to attain the knowledge of God. Refusal to accept the common innate nature of human beings and consequently the denial of innate theism is another problem of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's rationalist approach.
Acceptance of the possibility of seeing God by man, and the presentation of various Qur'anic evidence to prove it by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, which in fact leads to personal knowledge, is one of the important challenges for him that causes an internal conflict in his theological stances.
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