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This essay explores and develops implications of certain features of contemporary philosophy, especially Deconstructionism, as well as features drawn from Kierkegaardian existentialism, for the discipline of philosophy of religion. In the field of philosophy of religion it will concentrate upon the concept of religious intuition and/or religious experience, inquiring as to the relationship between will/decision/conviction/faith and experience/awareness/intuition/cognition. While each of these terms may have a slightly different nuance, I shall not be concerned with such subtle distinctions, but concentrate, rather, upon a common thread that seems to run through one set of concepts and how it might be related to a common thread running through the alternative set of concepts. Thus the essay may be read on various levels or within various frames of reference.
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K. E. Kirk, The Vision Of God (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1935), p. 2.
Ibid., p. 8.
R. N. Flew, The Idea Of Perfection In Christian Theology (London: Oxford University Press, 1934), p. 141.
Ibid., p. 316.
Quoted in Kirk, Ibid., p. 143.
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Ibid., p. 90.
Ibid., p. 112.
J. S. Bixler, “Can Religion Become Empirical?” in J. S. Bixler, R. L. Calhoun, H. R. Niebuhr, The Nature Of Religious Experience (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937.), p. 70.
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Ibid., p. 91.
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R. Otto, The Idea Of The Holy (London: Oxford University Press, 1943), p. 117.
Ibid., p. 140.
Ibid., pp. 147–148.
Ibid., p. 140.
Ibid., p. 141.
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Ibid., p. 283.
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Ibid., pp. 21–22.
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J. E. Smith, Ibid., p. 36.
Ibid., p. 42.
Ibid., p. 52.
Ibid., p. 64.
Ibid., p. 113.
Ibid.
Ibid., pp. 117, 155.
For a further discussion of this issue of starting points see H. A. Durfee, “Metaphilosophy In The Shadow Of Kierkegaard,” in J. H. Smith, Kierkegaard’s Truth: The Disclosure of The Self, Psychiatry And The Humanities, Vol. 5 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981).
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For a more extended analysis of this feature in contemporary philosophy of religion see H. A. Durfee, “Ultimate Meaning And Presuppositionless Philosophy,” Ultimate Reality And Meaning, 6 (1983) 244–262.
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Durfee, H.A. (1987). Experience/Decision. In: Foundational Reflections. American University Publications in Philosophy, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3593-8_5
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