The reading of religious texts as mystical experience
I examine mystical experience through the history of European religious thought, its modern state, and different spiritual practices of the Patristic epoch. The survey gives some definitions: mystical experience is situated in the field of spirituality along with practices of its acquisition - ascet...
| Veröffentlicht in: | European journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Nebentitel: | Spirituality as a Subject of Academic Studies in Continental Theology of the Twentieth Century |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2015]
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| In: |
European journal for philosophy of religion
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Europa
/ Geistesgeschichte
/ Religion
/ Spiritualität
/ Religiöse Erfahrung
/ Erforschung
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus |
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| Zusammenfassung: | I examine mystical experience through the history of European religious thought, its modern state, and different spiritual practices of the Patristic epoch. The survey gives some definitions: mystical experience is situated in the field of spirituality along with practices of its acquisition - ascetics; and the fruits of it - theology and doctrine. The second part of the article is devoted to a wide field of Christian texts as a representative example of the same experience of the crystallization of mystical experience in ancient tradition, providing a few general types. Reading of religious texts is related very closely with the spiritual condition of the reader and supposes that he/she changes radically in the process of reading, being involved in some existential-hermeneutic circle. |
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| Beschreibung: | Abweichender Titel im Inhaltsverzeichnis: "Spirituality as a Subject of Academic Studies in Continental Theology of the Twentieth Century" |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v7i2.127 |