Religious experience in the current theological discussion and in the church pew

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title Religious experience in the current theological discussion and in the church pew
 
Creator Biernot, David Lombaard, Christoffel
 
Subject — Religious experience; George Lindbeck; foundationalism; Schleiermacher; experiential-expressive model of faith
Description Taking a new look at the language of ‘religious experience’, the authors in this contribution take into review this aspect in the current theological discussion, and in the church pew, asking the question: Does George Lindbeck’s criticism of the experiential-expressive model of religion still have something to say to us? Firstly, Lindbeck is reviewed and recouped. Then, religious experience and its commodification are discussed, at the hand also of the heritage from Schleiermacher onwards on experience. Taking a position within the post-modern, relativist, critical realist and pragmatist possibilities, a community-embedded sense of truth is concluded to without sacrificing the possibility of universalising claims. Is it possible, though, within the cultural reflex towards psychologised faith to retain a historically oriented depth?
 
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Date 2017-09-11
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
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Identifier 10.4102/hts.v73i3.4347
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 73, No 3 (2017); 12 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2017 David Biernot, Christoffel Lombaard https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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