How Do We Know God?
This article undertakes to consider our knowledge of God on the basis of a critical examination of the relationship between cognition and experience. It is shown that experience is a much wider realm than that of cognition. The most intense experiences of religion are aroused by situations where the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
1925
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The journal of religion
Year: 1925, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 113-129 |
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| Summary: | This article undertakes to consider our knowledge of God on the basis of a critical examination of the relationship between cognition and experience. It is shown that experience is a much wider realm than that of cognition. The most intense experiences of religion are aroused by situations where the well-organized habits of thought and behavior are inadequate. In times of bewilderment and defeat one becomes unusually sensitive to a vast range of stimuli which have not been well organized in our ordinary consciousness. One may be perfectly sure of having experienced God without being able to give a clear definition of God. Analogies to this are found in every realm of experience. The conception of God will become more definite in proportion as religious experience is more definitely apprehended and described. |
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| ISSN: | 1549-6538 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/480490 |