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HTS Theological Studies
On-line version ISSN 2072-8050
Print version ISSN 0259-9422
Abstract
BIERNOT, David and LOMBAARD, Christo. Religious experience in the current theological discussion and in the church pew. Herv. teol. stud. [online]. 2017, vol.73, n.3, pp.1-12. ISSN 2072-8050. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v73i3.4347.
Taking a new look at the language of 'religious experience', the authors in this contribution take into review this aspect in the current theological discussion, and in the church pew, asking the question: Does George Lindbeck's criticism of the experiential-expressive model of religion still have something to say to us? Firstly, Lindbeck is reviewed and recouped. Then, religious experience and its commodification are discussed, at the hand also of the heritage from Schleiermacher onwards on experience. Taking a position within the post-modern, relativist, critical realist and pragmatist possibilities, a community-embedded sense of truth is concluded to without sacrificing the possibility of universalising claims. Is it possible, though, within the cultural reflex towards psychologised faith to retain a historically oriented depth?