Some poignant reflections from Tutea, pertaining to epistemology:
We are in a world beset by problems, and endless questions are raised by need, wonder, curiousity, and ever-deceiving causality. In this world we can describe, by simplification, two fundamental human types: the believer , who by personal experience accepts the impossible in the very depths of his soul, and the seeker, the inquiring type who questions himself and others, muddying the waters of both the inner and outer world, increasingly absorbed in endless experimentation, under the dialectical sign of non-fulfilment.
I believe that the only science which includes everything is theology. That science which has as its object divinity and everything created thereby is the only science which embraces everything since, from a Christian point of view, the creator animates creation from its very origins, despite its corruption by sin, to its ultimate end, the Saviour bringing the whole universe to perfection
A human being without revelation cannot say much... Explanation is bound up with transcendence. Where there is no revelation - that is where God does not grant you the grace [favoare] of knowing who you are, why you are, and to what end you are - there can never be an answer
God cannot be conceived or seen from below, but only in divine self-revelation: theophany, theandry, and trinity. Christian moments: creation ex nihilo, original sin, baptism... Last judgement, damnation, and salvation. Not thirst for origins, nor human ascent, but eschatological correction.
For Christians, the unifying principle is love, which is identified with the Godhead... Love opens a window onto the Absolute and does not stop at its threshold as immanentist approaches do. Therein are united both worlds, this world and the world to come, the perishable and the imperishable. Through this miraculous union, the believer escapes the jaws of absolute death [which is itself but the form of the atheist's mind].
When the human being breaks the triangle God-nature-humanity, he remains epistemologically and ethically alone, a rational animal in the world of the senses, questioning, erring, sick and dying, coming from nowhere, going nowhere, moving without understanding between the beginning and the end of this world (which are beyond his powers of knowledge) and a world of assumptions.