Integration: Toward a Unified Spiritual Epistemology A robust religious epistemology recognizes the complementary roles of head and heart. Head knowledge disciplines the imagination, guards against error, and equips believers to articulate faith. Heart knowledge provides the willful assent and transformative assurance that make doctrine spiritually alive. Integration requires:
: This is the higher, "new kind of knowledge" that comes directly from God through His Word. It is received by the human spirit and provides reality where sense knowledge only offers theories. The Problem of the Senses