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‘Augustine and Religious Experience’

Harrison, C.

Authors

C. Harrison



Abstract

Augustine of Hippo, one of the dominating figures of Western Theology, lived almost 1,600 years ago in an historical and cultural context very different from our own. What he and his contemporaries would have made of the term ‘religious experience’ one might well suppose would be rather different from what we, in our twenty-first century, postmodern, context understand by it. In fact, I wonder whether we can generalise, either about Augustine’s age, or our own, in this respect. The difficulty of defining so elusive a term as ‘experience’ and the questions raised by context, not least in respect to cultural, philosophical and theological matters, are felt acutely by anyone working in this field.

Citation

Harrison, C. (2002). ‘Augustine and Religious Experience’. Louvain Studies, 27(2), 99-118. https://doi.org/10.2143/ls.27.2.930

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2002-07
Deposit Date Mar 30, 2007
Journal Louvain studies.
Print ISSN 0024-6964
Electronic ISSN 1783-161X
Publisher Peeters
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 27
Issue 2
Pages 99-118
DOI https://doi.org/10.2143/ls.27.2.930