The experience of God : a postmodern response

Edited by Kevin Hart and Barbara E. Wall.
New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.

ISBN: 0823225186

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Book description
The book provides a series of approaches to the ancient question of whether and how God is a matter of “experience,” or, alternately, to what extent the notion of experience can be true to itself if it does not include God. On the one hand, it seems impossible to experience God: the deity does not offer Himself to sense experience. On the other hand, there have been mystics who have claimed to have encountered God. The essays in this collection seek to explore the topic again, drawing insights from phenomenology, theology, literature, and feminism. Throughout, this stimulating collection maintains a strong connection with concrete rather than abstract approaches to God.

About the author
Kevin Hart is a Professor with the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Professor Hart's publications include The Trespass of the Sign: Deconstruction, Theology and Philosophy (1989), A.D. Hope (1992), Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property (1999), Postmodernism (2004) and The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred (2004).

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