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Perceiving Things Divine: Towards a Constructive Account of Spiritual Perception


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Sensory language is commonly used to describe human encounters with the divine. Scripture, for example, employs perceptual language like 'taste and see that the Lord is good', 'hear the word of the Lord', and promises that 'the pure in heart will see God'. Such statements seem to point to certain features of human cognition that make perception-like contact with divine things possible. But how precisely should these statements be construed? Can the elusive notion of 'spiritual perception' survive rigorous theological and philosophical scrutiny and receive a constructive articulation? Perceiving Things Divine seeks to make philosophical and theological sense of spiritual perception. Reflecting the results of the second phase of the Spiritual Perception Project, this volume argues for the possibility of spiritual perception. It also seeks to make progress towards a constructive account of the different aspects of spiritual perception while exploring its intersection with various theological and philosophical themes, such as biblical interpretation, aesthetics, liturgy, race, ecology, eschatology, and the hiddenness of God. The interdisciplinary scope of the volume draws on the resources of value theory, philosophy of perception, epistemology, philosophy of art, psychology, systematic theology, and theological aesthetics. The volume also draws attention to how spiritual perception may be affected by such distortions as pornographic sensibility and racial prejudice. Since perceiving spiritually involves the whole person, the volume proposes that spiritual perception could be purified by ascetic discipline, healed by contemplative practices, trained in the process of spiritual direction and the pursuit of virtue, transformed by the immersion in the sacramental life, and healed by opening the self to the operation of divine grace.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Facets 1: John Greco: The Possibility of Spiritual Perception: Objections and Replies 2: Paul L. Gavrilyuk: Developing Spiritual Perception: Lessons from Claude Monet and Wassily Kandinsky 3: Frederick D. Aquino: Training Spiritual Perception: A Constructive Look at John Cassian 4: Mark Spencer: Value Perception and Spiritual Perception in Max Scheler 5: William J. Abraham: Radical Evil and Spiritual Perception 6: Boyd Taylor Coolman: Spiritual and Sensuous: Spiritual Perception, Eschatologically Considered Part II: Intersections 7: Sameer Yadav: Scripture as Signpost: A Perceptual Paradigm of Biblical Interpretation 8: Catherine Pickstock: Spiritual Perception and Liturgy 9: Boyd Taylor Coolman: Sensus Christi: A Liturgico-Sacramental Therapy for a Pornographic Sensibility 10: Sarah Coakley: Spiritual Perception and the Racist Gaze: Can Contemplation Shift Racism? 11: Paul K. Moser: Divine Hiddenness, Agape Conviction, and Spiritual Discernment 12: Douglas E. Christie: Healed and Whole Forever: Spiritual Perception in Nature 13: Mark McInroy: Spiritual Perception and Beauty: On Looking and Letting Appear John Cottingham: Afterword

About the Author :
Frederick D. Aquino is Professor of Theology and Philosophy at the Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University. He specializes in religious epistemology, the epistemology of theology, John Henry Newman, and Maximus the Confessor. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman (2018), The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology (2017), and Receptions of Newman (2015). Paul Gavrilyuk holds the Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy at the University of St Thomas. He specializes in Greek patristics, modern Orthodox theology, and philosophy of religion. His publications include Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance (2013) and The Suffering of the Impassible God (2004).

Review :
This is a rich and stimulating collection, which deserves to be widely read. Readers and students interested in what it means to live and think as a Christian in the age after secularism or materialism will find much to appreciate in these pages. . . . The authors take a salutary approach to intertwining doctrinal, biblical, metaphysical, epistemological, phenomenological, and ethical perspectives - recognizing the value of each and the hazards of leaving out any one of them. Perceiving Things Divine offers a spiritual vision that does not lead one to avoid the world seen with our eyes, but invites the reader to have eyes to see this world as one beheld by God. Scholars doing work in spiritual formation, the visual, and aesthetics will all find this to be both important and meaningful for their work. This is a rich and stimulating collection, which deserves to be widely read.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198802594
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 268
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 589 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198802595
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jan 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Towards a Constructive Account of Spiritual Perception
  • Width: 158 mm


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