Types of Religious Experience, Christian and Non-Christian
Author : Joachim Wach
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781258803124
Author : Joachim Wach
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781258803124
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Page : 275 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : Joachim Wach
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780282597146
Excerpt from Types of Religious Experience, Christian and Non-ChristianThis collection of papers is divided into three parts. The first three contributions which make up the first part are methodo logical in character. Since there is no equivalent for the German and French expressions 'religionswissenschaft' and science des religions' in English, History of Religions has been used pars pro toto as the term for the field of descriptive studies. The Place of the History of Religions in the Study of Theology (2) is discussed in the first paper.the second, which, in many respects, contains the core of the author's thought, summarizes his con cept of the nature of religious experience and a phenomenology of its forms of expression. It is entitled Universals in Religion because it Offers an outline of the structural elements the author believes to be characteristic of religion wherever and whenever found. It represents an attempt to go beyond the traditional exposition of the manifestations of religion (cf. Van der Leeuw's Phenomenology; Lehmann's Lehre von der Erscheinungswelt; Eliade's Morphologie) in the direction of what used to be called 'natural Theology, ' but with the endeavour to avoid the rationalistic preoccupation of the earlier (eighteenth-century) conceptlons. This essay has not been published before. The third essay on The Notion of the Classical in the Study of Religion (3) develops a construct to be used by the teacher and student of religions to steer a middle course between a historistic preoccupation with completeness of data in the history of religions, and arbitrary selection based upon a traditional or freely chosen Viewpoint. All three papers owe their existence to reflections which have grown out of the experience of teaching; they, as well as several of the following contributions, are meant to stimulate thought on the way in which instruction in our field might be improved.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William James
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1877527467
Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."
Author : Joachim Wach
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Page : 275 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : Peter Donovan
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
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This book is written in answer to the common statement: "Studying and talking about religion may be well and good, but it's the experience that counts." The author takes a good look at the various types of religious experiences abroad in the world today and how they relate to interpretation and knowledge of the Christian faith. Can one know from experience? Can one argue from experience? How can one explain religious experiences which defy human interpretation? These are some of the questions dealt with in this informative book. --
Author : Joachim Wach
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781258806521
Author : Harold A. Netland
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493434896
For many Christians, personal experiences of God provide an important ground or justification for accepting the truth of the gospel. But we are sometimes mistaken about our experiences, and followers of other religions also provide impressive testimonies to support their religious beliefs. This book explores from a philosophical and theological perspective the viability of divine encounters as support for belief in God, arguing that some religious experiences can be accepted as genuine experiences of God and can provide evidence for Christian beliefs.
Author : Alfred Clair Underwood
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Conversion
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Representation of regeneration -- Conversion and adolescence -- Experiences preceding conversion -- Types of conversion -- The immediate accompaniments of conversion -- The psychological mechanism of conversion -- Conversion during revivals -- The fruits of conversion -- The individual and the social -- Conversion in its comparative aspects.
Author : Charles TAYLOR
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674044282
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.