One of the foundational concepts for Wolfhart Pannenberg’s theological anthropology is his notion of ‘openness to the world.’ Openness to the world, according to Pannenberg, is essential to human identity in that one’s identity is established in their openness to the world, to the other, and, ultimately, to God. I aim to bring Pannenberg’s openness to the world into dialogue with the concept of the sensus divinitatis as articulated by John Calvin and further developed by Alvin Plantinga. The question driving this paper is whether or not Pannenberg’s openness to the world can rightly be understood as the sensus divinitatis, and, if so, what might be some benefits of it. I conclude that Pannenberg’s understanding of openness to the world is a fruitful way of understanding the sensus divinitatis and a fruitful way of arguing for and explaining humanity’s innate knowledge of God.

Wolfhart Pannenberg 神学人类学的基本概念之一是他的“向世界开放”的概念。Pannenberg 认为，向世界敞开心扉对于人类身份来说是必不可少的，因为一个人的身份是在他们对世界、他人以及最终对上帝的开放中确立的。我的目标是将Pannenberg对世界的开放性与John Calvin 阐述并由 Alvin Plantinga 进一步发展的sensus divinitatis概念进行对话。推动这篇论文的问题是潘能伯格对世界的开放是否可以正确地理解为sensus divinitatis，如果可以，它可能有什么好处。我的结论是，潘能伯格对世界开放的理解是一种富有成效的理解世界的方式。sensus divinitatis和一种富有成效的方式来论证和解释人类对上帝的先天知识。