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An exploration of the meaning and significance of transcendental experiences, the responses they have evoked, and their importance in Christian apologetics.
This book deals with profound experiences - emotional, intellectual, highly charged, usually sudden, unannounced, often odd, some weird, others glorious. Do these experiences mean anything? Are we puzzling over questions we can't answer no matter how long we try? Is that puzzling itself meaningful? If so, is that meaning significant? Are these experiences actually signals that there is something more than to human life - our human life, my life - perhaps something transcendent?
The book ends with a discussion of the need for an apologetic that includes a wide range of biblical revelation - not just religious experience, but historical and scientific evidence and rational arguments involving both a positive case and a negative refutation of objections.
This book deals with profound experiences - emotional, intellectual, highly charged, usually sudden, unannounced, often odd, some weird, others glorious. Do these experiences mean anything? Are we puzzling over questions we can't answer no matter how long we try? Is that puzzling itself meaningful? If so, is that meaning significant? Are these experiences actually signals that there is something more than to human life - our human life, my life - perhaps something transcendent?
The book ends with a discussion of the need for an apologetic that includes a wide range of biblical revelation - not just religious experience, but historical and scientific evidence and rational arguments involving both a positive case and a negative refutation of objections.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 258
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
28 August 2014
Trim Size: 9.02 X 5.98 in
ISBN: 9780718893637
Format: Paperback
What makes this book worth reading is... [H]is engagement with such a wide variety of poetry and literature. He gives a fascinating analysis of Pascal's poem, Memorial, for instance.... I hope Sire's work will inspire more Christian theologians and philosophers to write on question like why we find storie and poetic language so powerful? What is the trascendent power of fiction art?.... I think questions like these should also pique the interest of non-believers and skeptics as well.
— Ben Thompson
— Ben Thompson
Preface
Acknowledgments
Permissions
1 Signals, Signals, and More Signals: Introduction and Definition
2 Holy, Holy, Holy: Signals in the Bible
3 Am I Stepping on God? A Philosophical Theology of Transcendence
4 Christ in Ten Thousand Places: Signals of Transcendence in Christian Experience
5 Darkness Out of Light: Signals Rejected, Naturally
6 Bright Footprints of God: The Role of Signals in Conversion from Atheism to Christianity
7 Spots of Time: Deism, Panentheism, Romanticism
8 Everything Much, Nothing at All: Nirvana as Negative Cosmic Consciousness
9 I Am God: Transcendence as Immanent in the Self
10 Echoes and Arguments: Signals in Apologetics
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Permissions
1 Signals, Signals, and More Signals: Introduction and Definition
2 Holy, Holy, Holy: Signals in the Bible
3 Am I Stepping on God? A Philosophical Theology of Transcendence
4 Christ in Ten Thousand Places: Signals of Transcendence in Christian Experience
5 Darkness Out of Light: Signals Rejected, Naturally
6 Bright Footprints of God: The Role of Signals in Conversion from Atheism to Christianity
7 Spots of Time: Deism, Panentheism, Romanticism
8 Everything Much, Nothing at All: Nirvana as Negative Cosmic Consciousness
9 I Am God: Transcendence as Immanent in the Self
10 Echoes and Arguments: Signals in Apologetics
Bibliography
Index