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...
| Published in: | European journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Subtitles: | Spirituality as a Subject of Academic Studies in Continental Theology of the Twentieth Century |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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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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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Intellectual history
/ Religion
/ Spirituality
/ Religious experience
/ Exploration
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Abweichender Titel im Inhaltsverzeichnis: "Spirituality as a Subject of Academic Studies in Continental Theology of the Twentieth Century" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v7i2.127 |