Abstract
The metaphor of God's "two books" has often been used in discussions about the possibility of knowledge of God. The idea is that there are two sources for such knowledge, the book of God's works - nature - and the book of God's words - the Bible. There is a natural knowledge of God which can be gained from observation of, and thought about, created things, and there is a revealed knowledge that comes from special disclosures of God in history. These can lead, in turn, to natural theology and theology based upon revelation, and one then needs to ask about the relationships between these two theologies. (It should be noted that I do not speak about "revealed theology." Distinctively Christian theology is not revealed, but is faithful reflection upon the content of revelation and - if one allows the concept - natural knowledge of God.)