The problem of perception and the experience of God : toward a theological empiricism / Sameer Yadav.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yadav, Sameer, author.

Series:

Emerging scholars

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experience (Religion).

Perception (Philosophy).

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion).

Physical Description:

xiv, 509 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2015]

Summary:

The central claim in this work is that there is a radical mistake in many contemporary accounts that require grounding a theological story of God's availability to us in experience in a prior general philosophical theory of perception. Instead, it is argued that the philosophical problem of perception is a pseudoproblem. The study concludes with a new reading of Gregory of Nyssa and his theology of the spiritual senses, which is free from the bewitchment of the problem of perception.

Contents:

Introduction

The problem of perception and the perception of God

Freeing theology from the problem of perception

Marion, Alston, and the myth of the given

Preller, Hector, and Sellarsian coherentism

McDowell's naturalized Platonism as a minimal empiricism

Religious experience in modernity : an exculpatory explanation

Gregory of Nyssa : a minimally empiricist reformulation?

Christian religious experience : a posttherapeutic proposal.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Th. D.)--Duke Divinity School, 2014, titled: The problem of perception and the perception of God : John McDowell and the theology of religious experience.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-490) and index.

ISBN:

9781451499735

1451499736

9781451488852

1451488858

OCLC:

898167247