Calvinistic philosophy views the created order as an extra-mental reality that man encounters in the pursuit of knowledge. This objective referent for knowledge is revelatory in character and gets both its being and its meaning from its place in the plan of God. God created man’s mind as a fit instrument to gain knowledge of the created order. Thus, the mind enables man to come into fruitful contact with God, himself, others, and the world. Man is a revelatory being who lives in a revelatory environment to learn revelatory truth.

Living for God’s Glory, Loc. 2076.