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2 - Philosophy of Religion Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience

from Part I - Characterizing Religious Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2020

Paul K. Moser
Affiliation:
Loyola University, Chicago
Chad Meister
Affiliation:
Bethel University, Indiana
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Wiebe examines a historical shift from deductive inference to inductive inference and then to abductive methodological approaches in philosophy and science, with regard to their bearing on religious experience. In addition, he remarks on a "theory of Spirits" that postulates theoretical entities for explanatory purposes in connection with religious phenomena, and he suggests that a new epistemology of religious experience is needed for adequate explanatory purposes.

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