Perceiving God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perceiving God write by William P. Alston. This book was released on 2014-01-21. Perceiving God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Perceiving God, William P. Alston offers a clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience. He argues that the "perception of God"—his term for direct experiential awareness of God—makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety of reported direct experiences of God among laypersons and famous mystics, Alston demonstrates that a person can be justified in holding certain beliefs about God on the basis of mystical experience. Through the perception that God is sustaining one in being, for example, one can justifiably believe that God is indeed sustaining one in being. Alston offers a detailed discussion of our grounds for taking sense perception and other sources of belief—including introspection, memory, and mystical experience—to be reliable and to confer justification. He then uses this epistemic framework to explain how our perceptual beliefs about God can be justified. Alston carefully addresses objections to his chief claims, including problems posed by non-Christian religious traditions. He also examines the way in which mystical perception fits into the larger picture of grounds for religious belief. Suggesting that religious experience, rather than being a purely subjective phenomenon, has real cognitive value, Perceiving God will spark intense debate and will be indispensable reading for those interested in philosophy of religion, epistemology, and philosophy of mind, as well as for theologians.
Perceiving God
Perceiving God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perceiving God write by William P. Alston. This book was released on 2014-01-24. Perceiving God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience, William P. Alston argues that the perception of God—his term for direct experiential awareness of God—makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety of reported direct experiences of God, Alston demonstrates that a person can be justified in holding certain beliefs about God on the basis of mystical experience.
Perceiving the Wheel of God
Perceiving the Wheel of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perceiving the Wheel of God write by Mark Hanby. This book was released on 1994-03. Perceiving the Wheel of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the potter's wheel, a lump of clay yields to a necessary process of careful pressure and constant twisting. Similarly, the form of true faith is shaped by a trusting response to the hand of God in a suffering situation. This book offers essential understanding for victory through the struggles of life.
The Epistemology of Religious Experience
The Epistemology of Religious Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Epistemology of Religious Experience write by Keith E. Yandell. This book was released on 1994-11-25. The Epistemology of Religious Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arguing against the notion that religious experience is ineffable, while advocating the view that it can provide evidence of God's existence, this text contends that social science and nonreligious explanations of religious belief and experience do not cancel out the force of the experience.
The Spiritual Senses
The Spiritual Senses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spiritual Senses write by Paul L. Gavrilyuk. This book was released on 2011-11-10. The Spiritual Senses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the 'pure in heart' will 'see God'? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria, Bonaventure, Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar have all approached these questions in distinctive ways by appealing to the concept of the 'spiritual senses'. In focusing on the Christian tradition of the 'spiritual senses', this book discusses how these senses relate to the physical senses and the body, and analyzes their relationship to mind, heart, emotions, will, desire and judgement. The contributors illuminate the different ways in which classic Christian authors have treated this topic, and indicate the epistemological and spiritual import of these understandings. The concept of the 'spiritual senses' is thereby importantly recovered for contemporary theological anthropology and philosophy of religion.
