Divinising experience : essays in the history of religious experience from Origen to Ricœur / edited by Lieven Boeve & Laurence P. Hemming.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boeve, Lieven.

Hemming, Laurence Paul.

Series:

Studies in philosophical theology ; 23.

Studies in philosophical theology ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experience (Religion)--History of doctrines.

Experience (Religion).

Physical Description:

viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2004.

Contents:

Origen: Spiritual Life, or What Theology is All About / Jacques Haers 7

Experience Searching for Theology & Theology Interpreting Experience: Augustine's Hermeneutics of Religious Experience / Hans Geybels 33

The Experience of God: Aquinas on the Identity and Difference of Divine and Human Knowledge / Laurence Paul Hemming 58

Experience and Knowledge of God through Ignatian 'Discernment of Spirits' / Stijn Van den Bossche 75

On the Relative Unimportance of Religious Experience in the Early Schleiermacher / Joris Geldhof 89

Making Religion Safe for Democracy: William James and the Monotony of Religious Experience / Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt 113

Newman and Religious Experience / Terrence Merrigan 132

Existential Participation: Religious Experience in Tillich's Method of Correlation / Annekatrien Depoorter 146

Theological Methodology, Religious Experience and Christian Faith in the Writings of Wolfhart Pannenberg / Marc Dumas 179

Experience According to Edward Schillebeeckx: The Driving Force of Faith and Theology / Lieven Boeve 199

Gloria: the Ultimate Experience? The Theological Aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar / Yves De Maeseneer 226

The Truth Narrated: Ricoeur on Religious Experience / Christophe Brabant 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9042913835

OCLC:

53045220