Religious Experience in the Christian Life
eBook - ePub

Religious Experience in the Christian Life

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  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Religious Experience in the Christian Life

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About this book

Carl Jung once wrote, "e;No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure."e; Although fewer people than ever go to church, research indicates that perhaps as many as 66% of the population in secularized English-speaking countries are having significant religious experiences. This book explores the causes, nature, and effects of such experiences whether theistic or non-theistic, while indicating how those which are theistic can animate Christian spirituality, theology, piety, and churchgoing, while improving the psychosomatic health of those who enjoy them. This well-informed, wide-ranging study is a fascinating apologia which advocates the importance, beauty, and life-transforming power of a vital but often neglected dimension of human existence. It also sounds a cautionary note by pointing out that the orthodoxy of religious experience must be measured against the parameters of traditional Christian teaching in the belief that while dogmatic faith without religious experience is lifeless, religious experience without dogma is blind.

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Information

Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781528992930
Edition
0
Topic
Theology & Religion

Table of contents

  1. Tilte Page
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Information ©
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter One A Scriptural Paradigm
  8. Chapter Two Some Key Terms
  9. Chapter Three Two Ways of Knowing
  10. Chapter Four Is Religious Experience a Proof of God’s Existence?
  11. Chapter Five Religious Experience in the Life of Jesus and His Disciples
  12. Chapter Six Religious Experience in the Life and Writings of St Paul
  13. Chapter Seven Protestant and Catholic Interest in Religious Experience
  14. Chapter Eight Religious Experience and Empirical Research
  15. Chapter Nine Religious Experience and Spiritual Direction
  16. Chapter Ten A Proposed Typology of Religious Experience
  17. Chapter Eleven Examples of Theistic and Non-Theistic Religious Experience
  18. Chapter Twelve Gifts of Revelation
  19. Chapter Thirteen Religious Experience and Dreams
  20. Chapter Fourteen Religious Experience and Models of Evangelisation
  21. Chapter Fifteen Religious Experience and Popular Piety
  22. Chapter Sixteen Religious Experience and Theology
  23. Chapter Seventeen Religious Experience, Identity, Transformation and Action
  24. Chapter Eighteen Religious Experience and Psychosomatic Health
  25. Chapter Nineteen Dangers of the Experiential Approach to Religion
  26. Suggested Bibliography