Revelation and Religious Experience

Religious experience'' is one of the very important issues in the contemporary philosophy of religion to which there are various approaches. In accordance to this view, revelation is not to be considered as a proposition, but a kind of religious or mystical experience which comes to the divine prophets.Having given a preliminary glimpse of the religious experience, the present article which is devoted to the study of this view seeks to provide the definition of religious experience and its nature and comes to deal with it in the tradition of Christian liberal theology and in that of the Muslim thinkers and goes on to give some critical remarks on the aforementioned view. The article is concluded by mentioning the differences between revelation and religious experience and the effects of such a view on religious faith.