جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « معنویت مسیحی » در نشریات گروه « فلسفه و کلام »

This paper discusses the confrontation between two major approaches toward mysticism and mystical experience, namely those of experientialism and anti-mysticism. In the first part of the paper, the chief elements of the two approaches are introduced and discussed. On the one hand, experientialism, influenced by William James, underlines the role of individual and extraordinary experiences and ecstatic states, and identifies mysticism through such experience. On the other hand, anti-mysticism, chiefly reflected in the works of Denys Turner, criticizes experientialism on several grounds. According to anti-mysticism, the mystical approach is actually based on communal acts and thoughts, not individual experiences. Based on this view, anti-mysticism criticizes experientialism in its analysis of the role of experience in mediaeval spirituality, the shift in Christian spirituality, its reading of Christian spiritual history, as well as its reading of mediaeval texts. In the final part of the paper, both approaches are evaluated and adjudicated.