The Problem Of Perception And The Experience Of God

Author : Sameer Yadav
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1451499736
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Perception and the Experience of God written by Sameer Yadav and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental problem in Christian theology has been that of determining whether God can be an object of experience and how we should account for God's empirical availability to us. This study concludes with a new reading of Gregory of Nyssa and his theology of the spiritual senses, which is free from the bewitchment of the problem of perception.

Author : William P. Alston
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801471257
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perceiving God written by William P. Alston and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Tracy R. Murillo
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359889786
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perception is Everything written by Tracy R. Murillo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perception is Everything is a book designed to make us realize that our thoughts sometimes are the very things that inhibit us from success and love and peace of mind. Perception was birthed in a time where God was changing my mind by simply exposing lies that I believed about him and life itself. Things that had held me captive throughout my lifetime and I didn't realize it. Perception is everything because it is the very funnel that every decision is made. Perception was written to help change our minds to line up with God's truth about us. Not the words placed within us a children by our parents, teachers or peers. Change of mind is necessary in order to mature and to grow up into the things of God. Perception of life will either hold us back or propel us forward.

Author : Frederick D. Aquino
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198802595
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perceiving Things Divine written by Frederick D. Aquino and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensory language is commonly used to describe human encounters with the divine. Scripture, for example, employs perceptual language like 'taste and see that the Lord is good', 'hear the word of the Lord', and promises that 'the pure in heart will see God'. Such statements seem to point to certain features of human cognition that make perception-like contact with divine things possible. But how precisely should these statements be construed? Can the elusive notion of 'spiritual perception' survive rigorous theological and philosophical scrutiny and receive a constructive articulation? Perceiving Things Divine seeks to make philosophical and theological sense of spiritual perception. Reflecting the results of the second phase of the Spiritual Perception Project, this volume argues for the possibility of spiritual perception. It also seeks to make progress towards a constructive account of the different aspects of spiritual perception while exploring its intersection with various theological and philosophical themes, such as biblical interpretation, aesthetics, liturgy, race, ecology, eschatology, and the hiddenness of God. The interdisciplinary scope of the volume draws on the resources of value theory, philosophy of perception, epistemology, philosophy of art, psychology, systematic theology, and theological aesthetics. The volume also draws attention to how spiritual perception may be affected by such distortions as pornographic sensibility and racial prejudice. Since perceiving spiritually involves the whole person, the volume proposes that spiritual perception could be purified by ascetic discipline, healed by contemplative practices, trained in the process of spiritual direction and the pursuit of virtue, transformed by the immersion in the sacramental life, and healed by opening the self to the operation of divine grace.

Author : Mark K. Spencer
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813235200
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irreducibility of the Human Person written by Mark K. Spencer and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a philosophical portrait of human persons that depicts each way in which we are irreducible, with the goal of guiding the reader to perceive, wonder at, and love all the unique features of human persons. It builds this portrait by showing how claims from many strands of the Catholic tradition can be synthesized. These strands include Thomism, Scotism, phenomenology, personalism, nouvelle théologie, analytic philosophy, and Greek and Russian thought. The book focuses on how these traditions' claims are grounded in experience and on how they help us to perceive irreducible features of persons. This book also explores irreducible features of our subjectivity, senses, intellect, freedom, and affections, and of our souls, bodies, and activities"--

Author : Dale Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780830811526
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recovery from Distorted Images of God written by Dale Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1990-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerome Gellman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351786636
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystical Experience of God written by Jerome Gellman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001: Engaging contemporary discussion concerning the validity of mystical experiences of God, Jerome Gellman presents the best evidential case in favor of validity and its implications for belief in God. Gellman vigorously defends the coherence of the concept of a mystical experience of God against philosophical objections, and evaluates attempts to provide alternative explanations from sociology and neuropsychology. He then carefully examines feminist objections to male philosophers' treatments of mystical experience of God and to the traditional hierarchal concept of God. Gellman finds none of the objections decisive, and concludes that while the initial evidential case is not rationally compelling for some, it can be rationally compelling for others. Offering important new perspectives on the evidential value of experiences of God, and the concept of God more broadly, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers including those with an interest in philosophy of religion, religious studies, mysticism and epistemology.

Author : Rolfe King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441113649
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obstacles to Divine Revelation written by Rolfe King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, philosophical approach to the concept of divine revelation, exploring the implications this theory may have for generating a new concept of religious truth.

Author : William P. Alston
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720546
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reliability of Sense Perception written by William P. Alston and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why suppose that sense perception is an accurate source of information about the physical environment? More generally, is it possible to demonstrate that our basic ways of forming beliefs are reliable? In this book, a leading analytic philosopher confronts this classic problem through detailed investigation of sense perception, the source of beliefs in which we place the most confidence. Carefully assessing the available arguments, William P. Alston concludes that it is not possible to show in any noncircular way that sense perception is a reliable source of beliefs. Alston thoroughly examines the main arguments that have been advanced for the reliability of sense perception, including arguments from the various kinds of success we achieve by relying on the sense perception, arguments that some features of our sense experience are best explained by supposing that it is an accurate guide, and arguments that there is something conceptually incoherent about the idea that sense perception is not reliable. He concludes that all of these arguments that are not disqualified in other ways are epistemically circular, for they use premises based upon the very source in question. Alston then suggest that the most appropriate response to the impossibility of showing that our basic sources of beliefs are reliable is an appeal to the practical rationality of engaging in certain socially established belief-forming practices. The Reliability of Sense Perception will be welcome by epistemologists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers of science.

Author : Mark Wynn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521840562
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding written by Mark Wynn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wynn tackles established topics in philosophical theology in the light of new perspectives on emotions.