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    [fullTitle] => "Signs for a People Who Reason": Religious Experience and Natural Theology
    [abstract] => In this paper, I examine various philosophical approaches to religious experience and natural theology and look at some ways in which the former might be relevant for the latter. I argue that by thinking more about oft-overlooked or -underemphasized understandings of a) what might constitute religious experience and b) what functions natural theology might serve, we can begin to develop a more nuanced approach to natural theological appeals to religious experience — one that makes use of materially mediated religious experience to develop a natural theology more sensitive to the varieties of experience of lived religion “on the ground”
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                    [givenName] => Amber
                    [affiliation] => University of Konstanz
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            [2] => Mavrodes
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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.v9i2.1937
    [datePublished] => 2017-06-19
    [pdf] => https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/menuscript/index.php/ejpr/article/view/1937/version/446/1557
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"Signs for a People Who Reason": Religious Experience and Natural Theology

Amber
University of Konstanz

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v9i2.1937

Abstract

In this paper, I examine various philosophical approaches to religious experience and natural theology and look at some ways in which the former might be relevant for the latter. I argue that by thinking more about oft-overlooked or -underemphasized understandings of a) what might constitute religious experience and b) what functions natural theology might serve, we can begin to develop a more nuanced approach to natural theological appeals to religious experience — one that makes use of materially mediated religious experience to develop a natural theology more sensitive to the varieties of experience of lived religion “on the ground”

Keywords: Religious Experience

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