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My purpose so far has been to try to show that we should not think of religious experience as a special means of gaining access to a ‘non-material’ reality. The next task is to consider what can be said on the positive side. For this purpose it will be helpful, I think, to reconsider the ordinary uses of the word ‘experience’ rather than the sophisticated philosophical ones.
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I am grateful to Professor D.Z. Phillips for showing me the significance of this point. See especially D.Z. Phillips, The Concept of Prayer (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1965) passim.
J. A. T. Robinson, Honest to God (S.C.M. Press, London, 1963) p. 24.
J. A. T. Robinson, But That I Can’t Believe (Fontana Books, London, 1967) p. 28.
From Joseph Maréchal, S.J., Studies in the Psychology of the Mystics, trans. Algar Thorold (Burns, Oates & Washbourne, London, 1927) pp. 33–4. I am grateful to Professor E. L. Mascall for calling my attention to this work.
C. B. Martin, Religious Belief (Cornell U.P., Ithaca, N.Y., 1959) p. 67.
For further discussion see in particular A. G. N. Flew, ‘Locke and the Problem of Personal Identity’, Philosophy, xxvi (1951) 53–68; B. A. O. Williams, ‘Personal Identity and Individuation’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, lvii (1956–7) 229–52; and Martin, Religious Belief, chap. 6.
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Miles, T.R. (1972). Experiences without Dualism. In: Religious Experience. New Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00741-7_5
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