The Experience of God

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-10043-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Belief and credal commitment sometimes seem to make less and less sense in the West. A kind of 'cultural amnesia' has taken hold, where formal religious adherence begins to seem almost unthinkable. This is especially so for the idea of divine revelation. Robyn Horner argues this means we need to re-evaluate how theology proceeds, focusing not so much on beliefs but on experience. Exploring ways in which the experiential might open human beings up to divine possibility, the author turns to phenomenology (especially in the French philosophical tradition) because it seeks to examine unrestrictedly what is given through involved encounter. Bringing phenomenology and poststructuralism together, Horner develops the idea of revelation as an 'event' wherein God interrupts and exceeds human experience, affecting and transforming it. This striking concept, named but largely unexplored by theology, articulates a notion of supernatural revelation which now starts to appear both coherent and plausible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horner, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. The Problem in Context: 1. Introduction to the book; 2. Living in a secular age; Part II. Revelation in contemporary philosophy and theology: 3. Revelation as a philosophical problem; 4. Revelation as a theological problem I – Theology and metaphysics; Part III. THe Event of Revelation: 6. A hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to theology; 7. Revelation exceeds experience; 8. Revelation affects experience; 9. Revelation shapes experience; 10. The event in person – Revelation transforms.

Über Autor(innen)

Horner, Robyn
Robyn Horner is Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. She writes at the intersections of hermeneutic phenomenology, poststructuralism and fundamental theology. Professor Horner is also the author of Rethinking God as Gift: Marion, Derrida and the Limits of Phenomenology (Fordham University Press, 2001) and of Jean-Luc Marion: A Theo-Logical Introduction (Ashgate, 2005). She is in addition the volume editor, alongside Claude Roman, of The Experience of Atheism: Phenomenology, Metaphysics and Religion (Bloomsbury, 2021).