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The Experience of God
A Phenomenology of Revelation

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Author: Robyn Horner, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne

Date Published: October 2022
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781009100434

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Belief and credal commitment sometimes seem to make less and less sense in the West. A kind of 'cultural amnesia' has taken hold, where formal religious adherence begins to seem almost unthinkable. This is especially so for the idea of divine revelation. Robyn Horner argues this means we need to re-evaluate how theology proceeds, focusing not so much on beliefs but on experience. Exploring ways in which the experiential might open human beings up to divine possibility, the author turns to phenomenology (especially in the French philosophical tradition) because it seeks to examine unrestrictedly what is given through involved encounter. Bringing phenomenology and poststructuralism together, Horner develops the idea of revelation as an 'event' wherein God interrupts and exceeds human experience, affecting and transforming it. This striking concept, named but largely unexplored by theology, articulates a notion of supernatural revelation which now starts to appear both coherent and plausible.
- A bold and arresting new argument for the continuing value of religion in a secular age
- Has a great deal to say that will be of much interest to theologians, philosophers of religion, continental philosophers and critical theorists alike
- In giving primacy to experience over belief the book offers a plausible and coherent way forward for religious sceptics and agnostics
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‘This is a book of strong and impressive scholarship. It covers important theological territory, as it tries to come to terms with the notion of revelation and its possibility within a post-metaphysical world, using various lenses of French phenomenology especially to focus the task.' Andrew W. Hass, University of Stirling
‘Robyn Horner's book is an able and intelligent exploration of the prospects for a phenomenology of revelation in a secular age.' Andrew. W. Hass, Dublin City University
’This is an excellent, well-written book that could be used with students as a guide to a current debate within philosophy and theology, and offers a way of understanding revelation that has contemporary relevance.’ Gavin Flood, The Heythrop Journal
‘The present study not only offers an extremely stimulating outline for a phenomenology of revelation, it also allows itself to be challenged by the experiential horizons of post-secular lifeworlds. In a skillful and convincing combination of phenomenological, deconstructive and hermeneutic approaches, the author opens up a new approach to the question of revelation.’ Paul Schroffner, Theologie
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- Date Published: October 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009100434
- length: 250 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. The Problem in Context:
1. Introduction to the book
2. Living in a secular age
Part II. Revelation in contemporary philosophy and theology:
3. Revelation as a philosophical problem
4. Revelation as a theological problem I – Theology and metaphysics
Part III. THe Event of Revelation:
6. A hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to theology
7. Revelation exceeds experience
8. Revelation affects experience
9. Revelation shapes experience
10. The event in person – Revelation transforms.
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Robyn Horner, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Robyn Horner is Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. She writes at the intersections of hermeneutic phenomenology, poststructuralism and fundamental theology. Professor Horner is also the author of Rethinking God as Gift: Marion, Derrida and the Limits of Phenomenology (Fordham University Press, 2001) and of Jean-Luc Marion: A Theo-Logical Introduction (Ashgate, 2005). She is in addition the volume editor, alongside Claude Roman, of The Experience of Atheism: Phenomenology, Metaphysics and Religion (Bloomsbury, 2021).