Process Mysticism

By: Daniel A. Dombrowski

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Hardcover | 1 January 2023

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232 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75

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Offers a process philosophical approach to mysticism and mystical religious experience.

Process Mysticism uses the process philosophies of Charles Hartshorne, Alfred North Whitehead, and Henri Bergson to explore mystical religious experiences. The aim is not so much to demonstrate that such experiences are true or veridical as it is to understand, in a William Jamesian fashion, how they could be possible and not contradict the concept of God held by philosophers and theologians. Divine world-inclusiveness, ideal power and tragedy, the ontological argument, asceticism and the via negativa, divine visions and voices, and the aesthetics and ethics of mysticism are all treated in detail. The book is ecumenical in that it is meant to illuminate mystical experiences as they occur around the world in different religious traditions, but the author is especially familiar with those in the Abrahamic religions. "Mysticism" can refer to either direct experience of God or the claim that such experience is ineffable, and both senses of the term are carefully analyzed in the book.

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"...Dombrowski's contribution disrupts the default ontologies and epistemologies typically assumed in the philosophy of religion. Such a fundamental shift away from classical theism and its heirs underscores the rich fecundity and explanatory power of process thought vis- -vis religious phenomena. Readers of this journal who may be interested in restructuring the metaphysical underpinnings for the theoretical side of their research methodologies will find Dombrowski's work exemplary." - Nova Religio

"Process Mysticism is among the most important rigorously philosophical and natural scientific appreciations of religious mysticism since William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience. Dombrowski demonstrates that neoclassical process theology (panentheism) can account for mystical experiences far better than classical theology or atheism (and far better than pantheism)." - Theodore Walker Jr., coauthor of The Big Bang and God: An Astro-Theology

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