Phenomenology and the Holy: Religious experience after Husserl (Veritas)

SCM Veritas engages in critical and original questions of pressing concern to both philosophers and theologians. The major concern of all books in this series is to display a rigorous theological critique of categories not often thought to be theological in character, such as phenomenology or metaphysics which are mainly considered as philosophical categories. All the books in this series aim to illustrate that without theology, something essential is lost in our accounts of such categories not only in the abstract but in the way in which we inhabit the world. Phenomenology and the Holy is a study of the holy which attempts to find this both in the ordinary and in the sublime, thus challenging the reduction of the holy to a discrete and separated field of experience. Phenomenology is a key area of twentieth-century philosophy in which there is a wide interest, not only among philosophers but also among theologians and religious studies scholars. In This Book, Espen Dahl Invites Us To Consider Neglected Resources With The Phenomenological Tradition, Particularly In The Later Husserl's And Almost Ethnographic Attention To Lived Experience. Building A Bridge From Otto And Husserl, Through Schntz, To Wittgenstein And Cavell, Dahl Reinvigorates Phenomenology Of Religion As The Philosophical Investigation Of Worship.--james K.a. Smith, Professor Of Philosophy, Calvin College --book Jacket. Approaching The Phenomenology Of The Holy -- The Everyday And The Lifeworld -- The Mystery Of The Thing -- The Mystery Of The Human Other -- The Inner History And Mediation Of The Holy -- Dynamics Of The Everyday : Normality, Scepticism And Falling -- The Holy And Worship. Espen Dahl. In Association With The Centre Of Theology And Philosophy, University Of Nottingham. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 309-322) And Index. Phenomenology and the Holy is a study of the holy which attempts to find this both in the ordinary and in the sublime, thus challenging the reduction of the holy to a discrete and separated field of experience. Phenomenology is a key area of twentieth-century philosophy in which there is a wide interest, not only among philosophers but also among theologians and religious studies scholars. SCM Veritas engages in critical and original questions of pressing concern to both philosophers and theologians. The major concern of all books in this series is to display a rigorous theological critique of categories not often thought to be theological in character, such as phenomenology or metaphysics which are mainly considered as philosophical categories. Phenomenology is a key area of twentieth-century philosophy in which there is a wide interest, not only among philosophers but also among theologians and religious studies scholars. This title presents a study of phenomenology and the 'return of God'.