Glad you found the site interesting! You asked about “studying God”; I’m not sure if you’re using that as a synonym for “knowing God” or mean something different.

In McLaren’s book, he suggests a bunch of ways to “experience God” including: ritual, nature, worship, art, obedience, suffering, joy, solitude, etc. Those are all valid in their own way but not really what I’m getting at.

To study God (or know “about” God) I think that natural theology (what we can discern about God from observing our created world) can tell us some valid things about Him. However, to know God is something that natural theology can’t do; that more personal relationship has to begin with God’s revealing of Himself to us. That is, through His Word … His Son and the Bible.

At least, that’s what I was able to come up with just now I didn’t have a particular methodology in mind when I made the post; I was sort of saying that studying (or knowing) God would necessarily be more varied, more complex, require more thought and determination and flexibility, than any other knowledge we might hope to attain. If that makes any sense.

I have just found your site and it is quite interesting. In reading you post “Knowing God” you make the statement “I am suggesting that rigidly applying the same methodology used for studying mundane things would be in some sense deficient when considering divine things.” I agree with this statement, but I would like to know if you have a particular methodology when studying God.