The Experience of God: A Postmodern Response
Kevin Hart and Barbara Wall
Abstract
This book provides a series of approaches to the ancient question of whether and how God is a matter of “experience”, or, alternately, to what extent the notion of experience can be true to itself if it does not include God. On the one hand, it seems impossible to experience God: the deity does not offer Himself to sense experience. On the other hand, there have been mystics who have claimed to have encountered God. The essays in this collection seek to explore the topic again, drawing insights from phenomenology, theology, literature, and femini ... More
This book provides a series of approaches to the ancient question of whether and how God is a matter of “experience”, or, alternately, to what extent the notion of experience can be true to itself if it does not include God. On the one hand, it seems impossible to experience God: the deity does not offer Himself to sense experience. On the other hand, there have been mystics who have claimed to have encountered God. The essays in this collection seek to explore the topic again, drawing insights from phenomenology, theology, literature, and feminism. Throughout, this collection maintains a strong connection with concrete rather than abstract approaches to God.
Keywords:
God,
experience,
deity,
mystics,
phenomenology,
theology,
literature,
feminism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2005 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780823225187 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: March 2011 |
DOI:10.5422/fso/9780823225187.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Kevin Hart, editor
Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Barbara Wall, editor
Department of Philosophy, Villanova University
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