RT Article
T1 The reading of religious texts as mystical experience
JF European journal for philosophy of religion
VO 7
IS 2
SP 193
OP 207
A1 Michajlov, Petr 1975-
LA English
PB University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1567181627
AB I examine mystical experience through the history of European religious thought, its modern state, and different spiritual practices of the Patristic epoch. The survey gives some definitions: mystical experience is situated in the field of spirituality along with practices of its acquisition - ascetics; and the fruits of it - theology and doctrine. The second part of the article is devoted to a wide field of Christian texts as a representative example of the same experience of the crystallization of mystical experience in ancient tradition, providing a few general types. Reading of religious texts is related very closely with the spiritual condition of the reader and supposes that he/she changes radically in the process of reading, being involved in some existential-hermeneutic circle.
NO Abweichender Titel im Inhaltsverzeichnis: "Spirituality as a Subject of Academic Studies in Continental Theology of the Twentieth Century"
DO 10.24204/ejpr.v7i2.127