Religious Experience - Implications for What Is Real

"This book examines religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences, assessing in what ways these experiences seemingly implicate a spiritual order. The scope of religious experience is surveyed and different kinds of evidence are considered that might give rise to a belief in spiritual phenomena such as spirits and an afterlife"--

List of contents

1. The scope of 'religious experience'; 2. The general theory of spirits; 3. Testability and evidence; 4. Phenomenological evidence; 5. Evidence for the world of spirits.

About the author

Phillip H. Wiebe (1945-2018) was Professor of Philosophy and former Dean of Arts and Religious Studies at Trinity Western University, Canada. He was the author of Visions and Appearances of Jesus (2014), God and Other Spirits (2004), and Intuitive Knowing as Spiritual Experience (2015).

Summary

This book examines religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences, assessing in what ways these experiences seemingly implicate a spiritual order. The scope of religious experience is surveyed and different kinds of evidence are considered that might give rise to a belief in spiritual phenomena such as spirits and an afterlife.

Product details

• Authors: Phillip H Wiebe, Phillip H. Wiebe, Phillip H. (Trinity Western University Wiebe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781108423717
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42371-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: The Cambridge RF and Microwave Engineering Series; Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Philosophy, Theology, Religious ethics, Philosophy of religion