A Study on the Existence and Nature of the Perception of the Transcendence in Religious Experience

Schleiermacher interprets the truth of religion as the feeling or intuition of dependency to “the Transcendence”. His followers have proposed considerable details from this thought either. According to this approach, “religion” is an inexpressible perception and it is an interpretation that an experience finds it as mere existence. Therefore, it could be said that the realized perception in religious experience – which belongs to the transcendence – is made of intuitive or knowledge not made of acquisitive or conceptual knowledge. This approach is addressed by this question that whether this perception of the transcendence has enough efficiency to explain and prove religion or its explanation and transfer demands another process and criterion through which religion and prophet should propose and prove religious educations such as theology etc. to their audience. After reporting on explanations from religious experiences, the present paper investigates the existence and the nature of the perception transcendence and evaluates its relation with explaining, proving and rational defending from religious knowledge with a focus on Schleiermacher’s theory.