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Cognitio Dei Experimentalis: A Theological Genealogy of Christian Religious Experience

Cognitio Dei Experimentalis: A Theological Genealogy of Christian Religious Experience

Geybels, H.

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Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, Book 209

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ISBN10: 9042919841
ISBN13: 9789042919846
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Dec 31 2007
Pages: 457
Language: English
How and why theological discourse uses religious experience?
What kind of reflection was there about religious experience in the past? At
what point during the history of Christianity did religious experience become an
important epistemological category? What paradigm changes were at the basis of
the diverse interpretations of religious experience? These are some of the
questions addressed in this volume, a theological history of ideas, about the
historical development of the meaning of religious experience and how it evolves
from a mode of knowing to an object for knowledge. In general, during Antiquity
and the Middle Ages, theology creates experience, and in certain modern and
post-modern currents, experience creates theology: an end becomes a means.

With regard to Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Modernity, the author examines
what is meant by religious experience and drafts the evolution of an
intellectualistic concept that changes into an emotionally charged concept. Two
research questions however recur: what do the different writers, during
different periods, mean by religious experience, and what is the object of that
experience?

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