這篇論文目的在於給予英國神學家根頓的神學知識論一分析的描述。根頓批判地借用巴特的位格的關係和位格性知識來發展其聖靈式神學知識論，視位格的關係和位格性知識乃是聖靈中介活動所成說的。這是巴特及西方神學沒有充分委展出來的。但聖靈的中介活動並非某些直接傳遞知識的活動。根頓透過對約翰福音的解釋而指出，聖靈通過聖經及解釋的傳統來傳遞上帝在基督裡的啟示，即拯救知識，從而帶領我們進入真理：與基督建立位格的關係和獲取位格性知識。

This paper aims to give an analytical description of the theological understanding of the English theologian Cohn E. Gunton. Critically employing Karl Barth's conceptions of personal relation and personal knowledge of theology, Gunton develops them in terms of a mediating function of the Holy Spirit which, he believes, is not developed fully enough in Barth's theology nor in western theology as a whole. However, the mediating function of the Holy Spirit is not to be understood as some kind of direct mediating activity of the Holy Spirit. Exegeting the Gospel of john, Gunton articulates the thesis that the Holy Spirit mediates God's revelation of Jesus Christ to Christians through Holy Scripture and the tradition of biblical interpretation so as to lead Christians into the ”truth,” that is, into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and into a personal knowledge of Jesus Christ.