Book contents
- Spiritual Life
- Talking Philosophy
- Spiritual Life
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Philosophy and Religion in the Thought of Kierkegaard
- 2 De Consolatione Philosophiae
- 3 The real or the Real? Chardin or Rothko?
- 4 Love and Attention
- 5 Descartes’ Debt to Augustine
- 6 Visions of the Self in Late Medieval Christianity: Some Cross-Disciplinary Reflections
- 7 Refined and Crass Supernaturalism
- 8 Religious Imagination
- 9 Moral Values as Religious Absolutes
- 10 Revealing the Scapegoat Mechanism: Christianity after Girard
- 11 Philosophy vs. Mysticism: An Islamic Controversy
- 12 Non-Conceptuality, Critical Reasoning and Religious Experience: Some Tibetan Buddhist Discussions
- 13 ‘Know Thyself’: What Kind of an Injunction?
- 14 Facing Truths: Ethics and the Spiritual Life
- Index
- References
7 - Refined and Crass Supernaturalism
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Book contents
- Spiritual Life
- Talking Philosophy
- Spiritual Life
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Philosophy and Religion in the Thought of Kierkegaard
- 2 De Consolatione Philosophiae
- 3 The real or the Real? Chardin or Rothko?
- 4 Love and Attention
- 5 Descartes’ Debt to Augustine
- 6 Visions of the Self in Late Medieval Christianity: Some Cross-Disciplinary Reflections
- 7 Refined and Crass Supernaturalism
- 8 Religious Imagination
- 9 Moral Values as Religious Absolutes
- 10 Revealing the Scapegoat Mechanism: Christianity after Girard
- 11 Philosophy vs. Mysticism: An Islamic Controversy
- 12 Non-Conceptuality, Critical Reasoning and Religious Experience: Some Tibetan Buddhist Discussions
- 13 ‘Know Thyself’: What Kind of an Injunction?
- 14 Facing Truths: Ethics and the Spiritual Life
- Index
- References
Summary
In the postscript to The Varieties of Religious Experience William James distinguishes two types of belief in the supernatural, conceived as an essential component in religion, crass or piecemeal supernaturalism, on the one hand, and refined supernaturalism on the other.
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