Encountering Mystery: Religious Experience in a Secular Age Allison Dale C.
Despite widespread skepticism on the matter, a significant number of people today have stories of religious experience-- moments of inexplicable terror or rapturous joy, visions, near-death…
Specifikacia Encountering Mystery: Religious Experience in a Secular Age Allison Dale C.
Despite widespread skepticism on the matter, a significant number of people today have stories of religious experience-- moments of inexplicable terror or rapturous joy, visions, near-death experiences of the afterlife, encounters with angels, heavenly voices, and premonitions. How should rationally minded people of faith respond?What would your reaction be if someone told you that, one night while sitting alone, she saw through the window a brilliant light descend from the sky until it was so large that it filled the room--and that it radiated a feeling of "pure love"? And what would you say if a friend confided in you that he fell from a scaffold the other day, and that he felt a pair of arms catch him so that he was miraculously uninjured--even though he was alone?By default in the secular age we are skeptical about anything mysterious or