Phenomenology and the Possibility of Religious Experience

Work in what has been known as the theological turn in French phenomenology describes the way in which human beings are always, already open to a religious encounter. This paper will focus on Levinas as a proper transcendental phenomenologist as would be characterized by parts of Husserl and Husserl...

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Main Author: Mercer, Ronald L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2017
In: Open theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 516-528
Further subjects:B Phenomenology
B Dominique Janicaud
B Religious Experience
B Theological Turn
B Transcendental
B Emmanuel Levinas
B Eugen Fink
B Edmund Husserl
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