Toward A Christian Worldview - Faith Presbyterian Church Reformed

Chapter 2: Christianity and the Basic Elements of Philosophy
apostle, those who do not agree with the “wholesome” words of Jesus
Christ, “the doctrine which is according to godliness,” are those who
“know nothing” and are “destitute of the truth.”
Finally, Christian philosophy holds to the coherence theory of
truth, rather than the correspondence theory of truth. That is, the
Christian statement of the coherence theory of truth avers that whenever
a person knows the truth, he knows that which exists in the mind
of God; he does not have a mere representation of the truth (as in the
correspondence theory of truth); a representation of the truth is not the
truth.
In the Biblical view, a proposition is true because God thinks it to
be true. And since God is omniscient (knowing all things), if man is
going to know the truth, he must know that which is in the mind of
God. The same truth that exists in the mind of man exists first in the
mind of God. In the coherence theory of truth, the mind and the object
known are both part of one system, a system in which all parts are in
perfect accord, because they are found in the mind of God.
Metaphysics
The word “metaphysics” is derived from the Greek meta phusika,
meaning “beyond physics.” As seen, metaphysics has to do with the
theory of reality; not just the physical, but also that which transcends
the physical. Physical objects may appear to the senses in various
ways, but the metaphysician is concerned with what the object truly is.
Metaphysics is a study of ultimates.
In the history of non-Christian thought, metaphysicians have usually
fallen into one of two camps: monists and pluralists (or atomists).
The former aver that all things are forms of one substance or essence,
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