This article highlights the similarities and differences between ordinary and mystical consciousness. In the first part, two current views of ordinary consciousness are explained and opposed. Then in the second part, there are explanations of two views of mystical consciousness. The article discusses Daniel Dennett's materialistic reduction of mental phenomena to a biological substratum. Many...
Abstract: This article purports to introduce readers to Bernard Lonergan’s understanding of religious experience. It contrasts the emphasis placed on doctrine by ancient Christian doctors during premodern times, with a typically modern way of putting a stress on religious experience. It describes Lonergan’s view of human intentionality. It explains what he calls ‘realms of meaning.’ It...
WAiINWRIGHT, MARI'.rAIN, AND AQUINAS ON TRANSCENDENT EXPERIENCES1 Lours RoY, O.:P. Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts WHAT COULD ALLOW thoo1ogiianis to s1ay that rbrtanJScendent expmiences we, exiplicitly or implicitly, expenienoos of God? To ooswieir tMs question fully, one would ihavie Ibo ooga;ge in :two d:iisltmot mqumi1es. Fiirsit, religious , moml, iand psyoho101 giical...