The myth of religious experience
I argue that people do not and cannot have religious experiences that are perceptual experiences with theological content and that provide some justification for the belief in God. I discuss William Alston's resourceful defence of this idea. My strategy is to say that religious perception would...
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Format: | Electronic/Print Review |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2004
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Religious studies
Year: 2004, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-22 |
Review of: | Perceiving God / William P. Alston (Zangwill, Nick) |
RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NAA Systematic theology NBC Doctrine of God VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
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Book review
B Experience of God |
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