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Phenomenal Theology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

James P. Danaher
James P. Danaher*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Nyack College
*
Nyack, NY 10960, Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

We no longer believe that the mind is a blank slate that simply records sense‐data as given. Over the last two centuries, we have become increasingly aware of the fact that we bring something to what is given to us in experience. It is what we bring to our experience in the form of our conceptual perspective that molds and shapes our understanding or interpretation of the experience. This is especially true of religious experience. What is given in our God experiences is from God, but our interpretive understanding and reaction to our God experiences are uniquely our own. This paper considers several aspects of religious experience from such a phenomenal perspective.

Keywords

Phenomenal realityScriptureJonathan EdwardsRevelationPerspectivalism
Type
Original Articles
Information
New Blackfriars , Volume 88 , Issue 1018 , November 2007 , pp. 709 - 721
Copyright
Copyright © The author 2007. Journal compilation © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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5 Ibid., 152–53.

6 Ibid., 170.

7 Ibid., 169–70.

8 Matt. 4:19, 8:22, 9:9, 16:24, 19:21, Mark 2:14, 8:34, 10:21, Luke 5:27, 9:23, 9:59, 18:22, John 1:43, 10:27, 12:26, 13:36, 21:19.

9 Luke 6:35.

10 Joshua 6:21.