"The question of revelation in Christian theology is none other than the question of the source and ultimate rule of theology..." This statement makes an excellent starting point for our discussion of Christian doctrine of revelation and its relationship to the practice of theology. As these few words suggest, there is an intrinsically intertwined nature between the two ideas, more specifically, Christian theology's dependence on revelation and, equally, the understanding of that revelation through the act of theologizing. With this understanding in mind, it will be the purpose of this essay to explore the Christian doctrine of revelation, examining how it serves as the basis for the Church's claims and believers' claims to knowledge of God. To achieve this goal, we will briefly examine the basis of the concept of revelation and how such revelation is and has been understood to have occurred, with particular reference to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Finally we will examine how these interpretations relate to the study of theology and why they are important to it. Before beginning any discussion of the Christian doctrine of revelation, it is important to address one of the fundamental assumptions upon which the concept is founded, the belief that God is unknowable outside of revelation. This idea is at the very heart of the meaning of revelation and speaks to the otherness of God, arguing that such a being is so far from the conception of human imagination and thought that a self-revelation must occur. This is an understanding of revelation that is deeply rooted in both the Christian and Jewish traditions. In the Hebrew Scriptures we find numerous occasions... middle of paper......5. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006.Hart, Trevor. "Revelation." In The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth, edited by John Webster, 37-56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.LaSor, William Sanford, David Allan Hubbard, and Frederic William Bush. Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form, and Context of the Old Testament. 2nd edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing co., 1996.McGrath, Alister E. Christian Theology: An Introduction. 2nd. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.Best, Daniel L. Faith Seeking Understanding. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1991. Witherup, Ronald D. "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches." In Scripture: An Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible and its Interpretation, edited by Michael C. Gorman, 195-216. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2005.