"Signs for a People Who Reason": Religious Experience and Natural Theology
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https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v9i2.1937Keywords:
Religious Experience, Natural Theology, MavrodesAbstract
In this paper, I examine various philosophical approaches to religious experience and natural theology and look at some ways in which the former might be relevant for the latter. I argue that by thinking more about oft-overlooked or -underemphasized understandings of a) what might constitute religious experience and b) what functions natural theology might serve, we can begin to develop a more nuanced approach to natural theological appeals to religious experience — one that makes use of materially mediated religious experience to develop a natural theology more sensitive to the varieties of experience of lived religion “on the ground”References
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