Religious Experience and Religious Belief (Paperback, New)

Wall examines some objections to the thesis that religious experience is a rational ground for religious belief. Viewing religious experience along the lines of William James, specifically, as awareness of or encounter with the Divine, he adopts the approach of Richard Swinburne and William Alston that religious experience is prima facie justification for religious belief. The book further examines objections to this approach, measuring the objections against specific accounts of religious experience. Contents: Preliminary Considerations; Background Influences; The Explanation from Desire Three Special Cases; The Explanation from Desire Eastern Forms of Experience; The Notion of the Unconscious; The Effects of Religious Experience; The Religious Overrider System; Two Conflicts in Religious Belief; Conclusion."