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Religion and interpretations of experience
This thesis grows out of a preoccupation with : (a) the status of religious lan~uage and (b) the status of foreign and contrary doctrines to those of th~ writer's culture. Prejudices which informed the writer's approach to his subject were : (a) that people do have what may be called religious exper...
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| description | This thesis grows out of a preoccupation with : (a) the status of religious lan~uage and (b) the status of foreign and contrary doctrines to those of th~ writer's culture. Prejudices which informed the writer's approach to his subject were : (a) that people do have what may be called religious experience, that religious language is interpretative of that experience and can be adequate as providing a means to communicate about it; and (b) that foreign doctrines, while false perhaps absurd to non-participants in a culture, can be considered adequate to the expression of what goes into experience in that culture and should therefore be considered true in their own terms . |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/40139 Religion and interpretations of experience J H, Hofmeyr Theology This thesis grows out of a preoccupation with : (a) the status of religious lan~uage and (b) the status of foreign and contrary doctrines to those of th~ writer's culture. Prejudices which informed the writer's approach to his subject were : (a) that people do have what may be called religious experience, that religious language is interpretative of that experience and can be adequate as providing a means to communicate about it; and (b) that foreign doctrines, while false perhaps absurd to non-participants in a culture, can be considered adequate to the expression of what goes into experience in that culture and should therefore be considered true in their own terms . 2024-07-02T09:52:19Z 2024-07-02T09:52:19Z 1977 2024-06-25T13:21:05Z Thesis / Dissertation Masters Masters http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40139 eng application/pdf Department of Religious Studies Faculty of Humanities |
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| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Religion and interpretations of experience |
| title_full | Religion and interpretations of experience |
| title_fullStr | Religion and interpretations of experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Religion and interpretations of experience |
| title_short | Religion and interpretations of experience |
| title_sort | religion and interpretations of experience |
| topic | Theology |
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