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John Oman on feeling and theology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2012

ADAM HOOD
ADAM HOOD*
Affiliation:
The Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Somerset Road, Birmingham, B15 2QH, UK e-mail: ah@queens.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article revisits Oman's idea that an intuitive felt knowledge of the divine underlies the articulate knowledge found in faith and theology. Such feeling, Oman claims, is analogous to ordinary perception and gives rise to the attempt to evaluate, understand, and respond to the divine. Theology is the formalized attempt to respond to the intuition of the divine. The article argues that Oman's emphasis on the experiential and experimental character of theology is helpful, but that his analysis of the logic of faith requires reformulation.

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Religious Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 5 - 18
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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