In his influential teaching, E.W. Kenyon distinguishes between "Sense Knowledge" and "Revelation Knowledge," a dichotomy that forms the bedrock of modern Word of Faith theology. Kenyon argues that human conflict and spiritual powerlessness stem from a reliance on the five senses rather than the revealed Word of God.
Kenyon critiques mainstream Christianity for educating the mind while neglecting the spirit. Seminaries produce scholars who know Greek and Hebrew but lack the kind of faith that heals the sick or moves mountains. True faith, he argues, is not intellectual assent but the language of revelation knowledge. two kinds of knowledge ew kenyon pdf