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John Hick’in Dinî Tecrübe Anlayışı
John Hick’s Understanding of Religious Experience

Author(s): Fatih Topaloğlu
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Ontology
Published by: Karadeniz Teknik Üniversites - İlahiyat Fakültesi
Keywords: Religious Experience; revelation; knowledge; faith;

Summary/Abstract: John Hick emphasizes the importance of human experience and efficiency of faith with his understanding of religious experience. His claim about this issue is, to relieve the human of his inactive position against God who reveal. The natural result of this claim is a thought of revelation which gives a new emphasis on personal character of God, interferes with historical events, deals with the relationship between the sacred and the human at a more comprehensive level than acceptance of theological facts and their declaration. According to that, God is with us at any time and any place. Therefore, any person will hold a view about God when he is open to spiritual manifestation. The result of this approach is, there is no need sacred texts which were represented in propositional form in sacred books.

  • Issue Year: 1/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 159-171
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Turkish