Tecrübe, Dil ve Teoloji: Dini Tecrübenin Teolojik Yorumu

Yıl 2004, Cilt: 2 Sayı: 1, 0 - 46, 24.01.2009

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The very nature of experience and its significance as a theological argument have been tackled in this paper. Analyzing this very basis of theology, we should thus come into a position to see how experience and its theological interpretation when combined reformulate and reconstruct new understanding for theology which serves more adequately in the contemporary situation. This experience brings forth an exposition and language. Theological language is grounded upon religious experience, and all our  anguage and thought are rooted in experience and is essentially the articulation of experience. In this articulation, the source we deduce is not only the phenomena observed bu t noumenon that put before us a thelos according to which the phenomena is to be interpreted. Thus, the usual is integrated into a frame to be blended with unusual. This gives us double faces of the events and experiences which require looking at beyond what is conceived. Here we meet another face of the truth, i.e. the numinous, which requires us to look beyond what we think. So, what we see and what we think converge and form the full-conscious life directed to a meaningful whole.

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Religious experience, theological interpretation, empirical theology,