The Validity of the Religious Experience (Classic Reprint): A Preliminary Study in the Philosophy of Religion: A Preliminary Study in the Philosophy of Religion (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Explore the foundations of religious experience and what makes it real. This concise study asks how religious experiences come to be and why they feel true. It shows how scholars analyze the experience itself and seek a source outside the mind that can account for its power.
The book describes a careful method for testing religion and explains how theology has developed from these inquiries. It considers how a personal, outside source can shape what people call religious truth, while keeping the focus on the actual experiences people report.
- How religious experience is defined and tested without assuming a specific creed.
- Ways scholars describe the outside source and its relation to human consciousness.
- How theology emerges from careful study, not just from doctrine or devotion.
- Why devotion, reason, and experience all influence the study of religion.
Ideal for readers of philosophy of religion, theology, and religious studies seeking a clear, foundational approach.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book studies the concept, form, and validity of the religious experience in order to determine its implications and potential for knowledge. Religion is treated as a subject distinct from its practitioners' expressions and ideas, employing philosophical rather than scientific methodologies. The author analyzes terms to determine the nature of the phenomenon, examining the varying conditions and states that form the basis for religious experience. This book explores the source and character of the religious intuition, arguing that religious experience has the potential for inducing cognitive states that may or may not correspond to external realities, though it cannot represent those states. The book concludes that examining religious experiences through the lens of validity provides a valuable approach to understanding religious insight. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781330512401_0
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