
The Feeling of Transcendence, an Experience of God?
Louis Roy(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 15. April 2021
Book
Hardback
126 pages
978-1-7252-7273-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this book, Louis Roy takes account of the fact that, in the last fifty years, numerous people in the secularized West have responded yes to surveys that asked, ""Are you aware of having had an experience during which you felt in the presence of a dimension or a reality very different from ordinary human life?""
Are such experiences mere illusions? Some thinkers, like Feuerbach and Freud, believed so. Are such experiences encounters with God? Karl Barth, a great Protestant theologian, did not think much of their worth. On this issue, psychologists and theologians are divided.
Roy argues that those experiences are valid, that they possess a real potential, and that they can open their recipients to a genuine wisdom. He reports on eight narratives, spells out their constitutive elements, classifies them into four categories--aesthetic, ontological, ethical, and interpersonal--and suggests criteria to assess their concrete authenticity.
Thus, this book will appeal to educated readers interested in spirituality, philosophy of religion, psychology, literature, theology, and pastoral ministry.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
302 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7252-7273-6 (9781725272736)
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Après des études universitaires à Québec, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto et Cambridge, Louis Roy enseigne la théologie et la philosophie au Collège universitaire dominicain à Ottawa. Membre de l'ordre dominicain, il s'intéresse à la question de Dieu, à la révélation, à la mystique, aux rapports entre psychologie et spiritualité, à l'inculturation de la foi chrétienne et au dialogue interreligieux.