The claim that religious experiences provide evidence for the truth of theism (or indeed for any specific doctrine) faces the objection that the contents of such experiences are so diverse (often even contradictory) as to belie any notion that they could boost the probability of theism’s truth. Philosophers have in reply put forward a variety of explanations for this diversity. One model...
Apophaticism in mainstream analytic theology and philosophy of religion has come to denote a metaphysical and semantic thesis: that, due to divine transcendence, God is ineffable, inconceivable, or incomprehensible. But this conception fails to properly take account of the central claim of apophaticism as a special type of mystical theology. As such, the apophatic commitments to divine...
In this article, I will examine St. Edith Stein’s theory of religious language. Stein, who was both a professional philosopher and a mystic, and deeply rooted both in the tradition of negative theology and early phenomenology, held a peculiar version of univocity with regard to religious language. On the one hand, our concepts have something objectively in common with the thing they signify. On...