81 Fragmentation and Subjectification 1 with the physical’ (Beech & Beech, 2019, p. 38). Christians should return to Calvin’s notion of the sensus divinitatis, which underlines how the presence of God, although it cannot be empirically proven, can be felt or detected. This would include a return to the Augustinian notion that God can be sensed in nature as it surrounds mankind. With insistence, Beech & Beech (2019) referred to Bible passages such as Romans 1:21, 1 Corinthians 1 and Colossians 1, with the latter claiming Christ to be the Lord of all things, ‘and that includes all truth’ (p. 28). When dealing with ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, according to Beech (2021), there is no need to give up faithfulness, nor to impose one’s truth on others. Biblical knowing is not ‘an attempt to construct science on fully objective, empirical knowledge, believing that the human mind can discover fully the facts and universal laws of nature by means of totally objective observations’ (Beech, 2021, p. 119). Instead, it is knowing in a sense that the English language does not convey as adequately as Spanish or French, where saber/savoir is distinguished from conocer/connatre: ‘knowing more intimately or personally’, based on a relationship that includes loving (Beech, 2021, p. 123, 2019, p. 22). This kind of knowing, based on faith in Christ’s Lordship over all things, ‘includes what we know, how we know it, and what we do with it’, and it also includes ‘from whom we know it and when we know it’ (Beech, 2021, p. 120). More than that, it ‘involves a large set of relationship connections. One may know a fact but to understand it is to place it within its relational network’ (Beech, 2021, p. 120). Being related to this truth does not mean that Christians do hold knowledge or truth in themselves, as a form of possessing it. They still live in a world that suffers from communication problems: The Creation is so complex we are still struggling to understand it; the Scriptures can be very confusing in places and contain apparent contradictions; Jesus’s teaching, rather than being straight forward and logical, as we understand logical, used metaphors and illustrative stories that in many cases left listeners puzzled; the Holy Spirit’s voice can be very difficult to detect amidst the cacophony of competing voices. (Beech & Beech, 2019, p. 36) The knowing of Christians obtains its form through interaction with others. Beech (2021, p. 122) referred at this point to Dewey’s existential matrix (Dewey, 1938), which involved individuals relating to the elements of the environment and to each other. Beech however added that, from a Biblical perspective, this matrix includes ‘the relationship God has with all the elements in the diagram’ (Beech, 2021, p. 122). It actually starts from God and His Spirit of Truth (John 14:17). It is the Spirit of Christ that guides believers into aletheia, a Greek word
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