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Bridging the gap between social and existential-mystical interpretations of Schleiermacher's ‘feeling’ | Religious Studies | Cambridge Core

Bridging the gap between social and existential-mystical interpretations of Schleiermacher's ‘feeling’ | Religious Studies | Cambridge Core
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Bridging the gap between social and existential-mystical interpretations of Schleiermacher's ‘feeling’



Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2012
GORAZD ANDREJČ

Abstract


The article engages with two contemporary understandings of Schleiermacher's notion of feeling which are in important aspects in conflict: 
  1. a social understanding (Kevin W. Hector and Christine Helmer) and 
  2. an existential-mystical understanding (Thandeka). 

Using the phenomenological category of ‘existential feelings’ drawn from the work of Matthew Ratcliffe, I argue that they can be brought into a coherent overall account that recognizes different aspects of feeling in Schleiermacher's work. 

I also suggest that such an interpretation of Schleiermacher's concept of religious feeling offers 
a different and better understanding of the role of feelings in religious experience and belief 
than the contemporary ‘perception-model’ of religious experience.

Religious Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 377 - 401


DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412511000254[Opens in a new window]
CopyrightCopyright © Cambridge University Press 2012



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