Religious Experience, Justification, and History.

Religious Experience, Justification, and History.

Matthew Bagger argues against the use of religious experience to justify religious belief rationally. All experience implicitly requires a commitment to an explanation of its cause. Extraordinary religious experiences require a commitment to a supernatural cause, and Bagger demonstrates that the res...

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Main Author: Bagger, Matthew C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Experience (Religion)
Religion > Philosophy.
Religion > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: spectral evidences; 2 The explanation in experience and the explanation of experience; 3 Justification by reasons alone; 4 Perennialism revisited; 5 The miracle of minimal foundationalism; 6 Loves noble Historie: Teresa of Avila's mystical theology; 7 Modernity and its discontents; Bibliography; Index.

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