6 edition of The Evidential Force of Religious Experience found in the catalog.
Published
August 27, 1999
by Oxford University Press, USA
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Written in English
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Number of Pages | 280 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL7398266M |
| ISBN 10 | 0198250010 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780198250012 |
religion’s ‘‘cultured despisers,’’ apologists have periodically exploited religious experience. With all the more traditional avenues of theism’s defense generally in disrepute, modern theologians and religious philosophers have repeatedly sought to justify religious belief rationally by reference to the indivi-dual’s experience. 'The Evidential Force of Religious Experience' () Franks Davis' book containing her critique of Religious Experience There may be logical inconsistencies & incoherence in the subject's description of the experience.
The Evidential Force of Religious Experience' (), Caroline Franks Davis classifies religious experience into six categories: interpretive, quasi-sensory, revelatory, regenerative, numinous, and mystical. It just so happened that as I first read Kwan's book I was teaching my upper-level undergraduate class on the evidential force of religious experience. I had given the students several accounts of Marian apparitions, the first of which were from Garabandal, Spain, during , the second from Medjugorje, which began in and are still.
The Evidential Force of Mystical Experiences in William James’s Philosophy of Mysticism In his short chapter on William James, Bertrand Russell makes the comment, “There are two sides to William James’s philosophical interests, one scientific, the other religious.”1. Keith Yandell argues against the notion that religious experience is ineffable, while advocating the view that strong numinous experience provides some evidence that God exists. He contends that social science and other nonreligious explanations of religious belief and experience do not cancel out the evidential force of religious experience.4/5(1).
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saving/5. Caroline Franks Davis provides a clear, sensitive, and carefully argued assessment of the value of religious experiences as evidence for religious beliefs. Much more than an 'argument from religous experience', the inquiry systematically addresses underlying philosophical issues such as the role of interpretation in experience, the function of models and metaphors in religious language, and Pages: Books, Toys, Games and much more.
"Should be the starting point for any future investigation of the evidential force of religious experience upon any particular religious claim. Not only does it give a complete catalog of the various types of religious experiences, but it also gives a complete catalog of the various arguments from religious Price: $ This study examines the nature of religious experiences and whether they can be used as evidence for religious beliefs.
Davis discusses the important philosophical issues raised by religious experience, such as the role of models and metaphors in descriptions of religious experience, and the way experiences in general are used as evidence for claims about the world. The book examines several arguments from religious experience and, using contemporary and classic sources from the world religions, gives an account of the different types of experience.
To meet sceptical challenges to religious experience, the book draws extensively on psychological and sociological as well as philosophical and religious literature, probing deeply into questions such as whether religious experiences Author: Caroline Franks Davis.
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The author addresses philosophical issues such as the role of models and metaphors and the way experiences in general are used as evidence for claims about the world. The Evidential Force of Religious Experience.
£ [REVIEW] H. Owen - - Religious Studies 26 (4) Neuroscientific Explanations of Religious Experience Are Author: Caroline Franks Davis. Search this site: Humanities. Architecture and Environmental Design; Art History. Proponents of arguments from religious experience often succumb to the demand to provide a brief, precise definition of ‘religious experience’.
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Cash On Delivery Available!. I RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE The subtitle of my presentation bears what someone might recognise as a certain, perhaps misleading resemblance to Caroline Franks Davis’ book The Evidential Force of Religious Experience.
The difference is important, however. I believe that there is an evidential force.Show Summary Details Preview. This chapter discusses several ‘arguments from religious experience’ which have had wide appeal. Some of them were not originally intended as ‘arguments from religious experience’ in the full sense, but they can be treated as such because they represent common lines of argument about religious experience.Caroline Franks Davis is the author of The Evidential Force of Religious Experience ( avg rating, 10 ratings, 1 review, published )/5.
