The Inside and Outside: Religious Experience and Religious Thought
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My purpose in this essay is to explore religious experience and religious thought and the relation between the two, for how these two are conceived has an important bearing on how we understand the meaningfulness of religion and religious traditions. My starting point is Peter Berger's recent work. The Heretical Imperative (Anchor/Doubleday, 1980), in which he summarizes the various strategies for pursuing theology and religious thinking in our contemporary situation. There Berger notes the following:
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