Encountering Transcendence
Contributions to a Theology of Christian Religious Experience
edited by L. Boeve, H. Geybels and S. Van den Bossche
(Paperback) (Published)
(November 2005)
ISBN: 9789042916746
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This volume consists of several contributions to a refined understanding of religious experience in view of contemporary theological epistemology. Diverse sample studies taken from the extensive field of religion, theology and religious studies reveal that ‘religious experience’ is today clearly a pivotal issue. More specifically, this is made evident in modern theological hermeneutics and in the anti-modern and/or post-modern reactions thereto, the theology of world religions and inter-religious dialogue, the contemporary resurgence of religiosity in Western society and culture, and the so-called turn to religion in contemporary continental philosophy. It would appear from such studies that the category of ‘religious experience’ is frequently called upon to clarify or explain the phenomenon of religion and religiosity on the one hand and to support and legitimise religious positions or the critique thereof on the other. Because of the loss of plausibility of tradition-bound religiosity and of foundational, so-called onto-theological schemes, ‘religious experience’ has come to constitute, for many, the last (or latest) point of departure and anchor for religion and religious thinking. This is certainly the case with respect to tendencies within contemporary Christian traditions and theological reflection. In a multitude of ways and from a variety of different perspectives, ‘religious experience’ and ‘experience of transcendence’ or ‘of the divine’ have gained a prominent place in philosophical and fundamental-theological conceptual schemes. In reaction to this, other authors have denied the very primacy given to religious experience in reflecting upon faith, pointing to the constitutive role of tradition and narrative without which there is no religious experience. From all this follows that the category of religious experience is in great need of reconceptualisation, not least from a theological point of view. On the one hand, religious experience is all too easily called upon to legitimise religious claims (often against ‘tradition’) and on the other hand, the category has become misleading in so far as it is tainted by the modern scientific understanding of experience – in reaction to which ‘tradition’ is then easily invoked to protect the core of religion. Both young scholars at the preceding junior conference and senior scholars during the conference’s paper sessions presented from diverse perspectives new ways to conceive of religious experience in view of today’s challenges of secularisation, religious plurality, the aestheticisation of religion, etc. The selected contributions have been arranged in four thematically oriented parts: ‘Approaching Religious Experience in a Postmodern Age’, ‘Modern (re)Thinking of Religious Experience’, ‘Liberating Religious Experience’, and ‘Challenges for Spirituality’.
- Edited by L Boeve
- Edited by H Geybels
- Edited by S Van den Bossche
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Interspaces between Word, Gaze and Touch
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Normativity of the Future
Reading Biblical and Other Authorative Texts in an Eschatological Perspective
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Embraced by the Father and the Son in the Unity of the Holy Spirit
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Verdwaald tussen liefde, macht en schuld
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Mystical Anthropology: Cross-Religious Perspectives
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