Sandu FRUNZĂ
Aspects of the Median Space of Religious Experience in Judaism and Eastern Christianity
Instituția:
Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Department of Philosophy
Abstract:
Religious experience presents us with a polarity which suggests a permanent working together of specifically human symbolisation and the transcendent conditioning of every experience in the median space of religious experience. The transcendent acts as a universal operator which we try to represent by the means offered by apophatic thought. Negative theology offers us the image of an Unknowable God. This universal operator acquires the revelational contents of a certain religion, thus creating the possibility of a specific religious experience. This paper traces the ways in which the Unknowable God manifests itself in the symbolic structures offered by Judaic and Christian thought.
