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Religion, Experience and Privacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Stewart R. Sutherland
Stewart R. Sutherland
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Professor of The History and Philosophy of Religion, University of London, King's College
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It is of course true that the articulation of religious and theological views depends upon and often masks philosophical presuppositions. For example, those who quote with approval Anselm's ‘credo ut intelligam’, ‘I believe so that I may understand’, seldom follow the good example set by Anselm, and make explicit, as Anselm does in the following sentence, the fact that this principle rests upon a further principle: ‘For I believe this also, that “unless I believe, I shall not understand”’ (Proslogion, I). This paper is an attempt to track down and expose one very pervasive set of views about the nature of experience which is implicit in a wide range of religious and theological claims.

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Religious Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1984, pp. 121 - 132
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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