Religious Epiphanies Across Traditions and Cultures

ISBN-13: 9783319532639 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 290 str.

James Kellenberger

Opis

This book explores religious epiphanies in which there is the appearance of God, a god or a goddess, or a manifestation of the divine or religious reality as received in human experience.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

 

                                Introduction

 

                Part I Traditional Epiphanies       

               

                                1. High Relief Epiphanies

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                                2. Quiet Epiphanies

 

<                                3. Dialogue Epiphanies

                                                                               

                                4. Unconscious Epiphanies

                                                               

                                5. Epiphanies of Unknowing

 

                Part II Prophetic and Mystical Epiphanies

                                               

                                6. Prophetic Epiphanies

                                                               

                                7. Mystical Epiphanies

 

                Part III Epiphanic Encounters

 

                                8. Epiphanic and Near-Epiphanic Encounters

 

                                9. Possession

 

                                10. Sacred Mountains, Rivers and

                                                Heavenly Bodies

                                  11. Epiphanies Without God

                Part IV Epiphanies in the Modern Period and Today

 

                                12. Epiphanic Prayer

 

                                13. Visions and Apparitions in the

                                                Modern Period

 

                                14. Contemporary Epiphanies

 

                                15. Epiphanic Nature

 

                                16. Miracles

 

                Part V Issues

 

                                17. Concerns About False Apprehensions

 

                                18. Further Issues

 

                                19. The Nature of the Religious Reality

                                                Experienced in Epiphanies

 

                                20. Conclusions

                                                                                                                                     

                                Bibliography

 

                                Index

O autorze

James Kellenberger is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, USA. His previous books include Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Dying to Self and Detachment, and, most recently, The Everlasting and the Eternal, and Wisdom: Folk, Arcane, Practical, Religious, Philosophical, Mystical.

Blurb

This book explores religious epiphanies in which there is the appearance of God, a god or a goddess, or a manifestation of the divine or religious reality as received in human experience. Drawing upon the scriptures of various traditions, ancillary religious writings, psychological and anthropological studies, as well as reports of epiphanic experiences, the book presents and examines epiphanies as they have occurred across global religious traditions and cultures, historically and up to the present day. Primarily providing a study of the great range of epiphanies in their phenomenal presentation, Kellenberger also explores issues that arise for epiphanies, such as the matter of their veridicality (whether they are truly of or from the divine) and the question of whether all epiphanies are of the same religious reality.