The Phenomenological Turn
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 1116
Special Issue Editor
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Dear Colleagues,
In the Middle Ages, the main concern in theology was the proof of the existence of God. However, since Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) and his psychological and phenomenological turn, the focus turned to the individual and his religious experience rather than the ontology of God. As Schleiermacher wrote: "Religion is the outcome neither of the fear of death, nor of the fear of God. It answers a deep need in man." (Addresses on Religion). Schleiermacher's thoughts are best illustrated in Rudolf Otto's thoughts (1869–1937), especially in his seminal book The Idea of the Holy, where he described the religious perception of the holy as "non-rational, non-sensory experience or feeling whose primary and immediate object is outside the self", entirely different from anything we experience in ordinary life. God is the Wholly Other.
However, all of that may serve Christians where the main concern is faith. In Judaism and Islam, where besides faith, there is a law that is believed to be given by God (in Judaism Halakha and in Islam the Shria), the phenomenology of God is not enough. One cannot be expected to observe a law that is based solely on the subjective. A phenomenology of the law is waiting to be developed as well.
Dr. Isaac Lifshitz
Guest Editor
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