The Structure of Religious Knowing
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The Structure of Religious Knowing

Encountering the Sacred in Eliade and Lonergan

  1. 199 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

The Structure of Religious Knowing

Encountering the Sacred in Eliade and Lonergan

About this book

This definitive study brings together the thought of Romanian religious scholar Mircea Eliade with that of Canadian philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan to identify the general structure of religious knowing. Applying Lonergan's fourfold levels of consciousness as an interpretive framework, the author elicits a clearer understanding of Eliade's theories of the sacred by treating four principle themes: the experience of the sacred; the sacred as expressed in religious symbols; the fundamental reality of the sacred; and life in the sacred as religious transformation, ritual, and mystical personalities. In addition, the book addresses the relationship between theology and religious studies as distinct but complimentary disciplines, and the interdisciplinary foundations for cooperation among the world's religions.

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Table of contents

  1. The Structure of Religious Knowing
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. ABBREVIATIONS
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. 1. Significant Moments in the Historical Development of the Study of Religion and Religious Experience
  7. 2. Lonergan on the Relationship between Theology and the History of Religions
  8. 3. Lonergan’s Theory of Consciousness as Hermeneutic Framework
  9. 4. The Experience of the Sacred
  10. 5. Understanding the Sacred through Religious Symbols
  11. 6. The Sacred as Real: An Analysis of Eliade’s Ontology of the Sacred
  12. 7. Living in the Sacred
  13. 8. Eliade and Lonergan Mutual Enrichment
  14. NOTES
  15. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  16. INDEX