Religious experience, justification, and history / Matthew C. Bagger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bagger, Matthew C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experience (Religion).

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Religious Experience, Justification, & History

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many philosophers of religion have sought to defend the rationality of religious belief by shifting the burden of proof onto the critic of religious belief. Some have appealed to extraordinary religious experience in making their case. Religious Experience, Justification and History restores neglected explanatory and historical considerations to the debate. Through a study of William James, it contests the accounts of religious experience offered in recent works. Through reflection on the history of philosophy, it also unravels the philosophical use of the term 'justification'. Matthew Bagger argues that the commitment to supernatural explanations implicit in the religious experiences employed to justify religious belief contradicts the modern ideal of human flourishing. For contrast, and to demonstrated the indispensability of history, he includes a study of Teresa of Avila's mystical theology. The controversial supernatural explanations implicit in extraordinary religious experience places the burden of proof on the believer.

Contents:

Introduction: spectral evidences

The explanation in experience and the explanation of experience

Justification by reasons alone

Perennialism revisited

The miracle of minimal foundationalism

Loves noble historie: Teresa of Avila's mystical theology

Modernity and its discontents.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-236) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11110-2

0-521-09325-2

0-511-14920-4

0-511-30950-3

0-511-05052-6

0-511-17182-X

0-511-48763-0

1-280-41886-9

OCLC:

437072398