Thank you Linus for your thoughtful response. I'd like to briefly respond. I would agree with you in your definition of theology as the history of speculation about a Being we can know nothing about, if not for my belief that we inheritors of the Enlightenment have lost some very important things. One is realizing that knowledge humans can have is not limited to what we discover through science, or even through our senses. I believe, with William James and many other early psychologists, that we can access knowledge also directly unmediated by our conscious and rational processes. The best explanation of this is in Rudolph Otto's The Idea of the Holy. There are two ways to knowledge, he says, the rational and what is sometimes called the "non-rational" but I think today he would prefer "meta-rational." I realize this is not acceptable to the physicalist-empiricist mindset that we all have been steeped in, but it helps answer many profound questions. Add this to the binary proposition you have regarding revelation, and the door opens a bit. My thoughts, I'd be interested in hearing more from you on this.