Religious Experience, Justification, and History

Discusses how the respectability of supernatural explanations to justify religious belief has changed over time.

List of contents

1. Introduction: spectral evidences; 2. The explanation in experience and the explanation of experience; 3. Justification by reasons alone; 4. Perennialism revisited; 5. The miracle of minimal foundationalism; 6. Loves noble Historie: Teresa of Avila's mystical theology; 7. Modernity and its discontents; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

Many philosophers of religion have sought to defend the rationality of religious belief by shifting the burden of proof onto the critic of religious belief. Some have appealed to extraordinary religious experience in making their case. Religious Experience, Justification and History restores neglected explanatory and historical considerations to the debate.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew C. Bagger, Bagger Matthew C.
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.1999
• EAN: 9780521622554
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62255-4
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 224 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 470 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Spirituality, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Philosophy of religion, Spirituality and religious experience