An Essential Comparison between "Religious Experience" and "Innate Disposition"

• Main Author: hamidreza basiri
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Allameh Tabataba'i University Press 2011-10-01
• Series: Āfāq-i Dīn
• Subjects: modern theology; Humanism; religious experience; natural disposition; God
• Online Access: http://rjqk.atu.ac.ir/article_5573_b6c5686dea338ac97bc6c81405a73fe0.pdf

Religious experience is a novel issue in the field of theology and the philosophy of religion; it denotes God’s manifestationin the experiencer, which comes about in certain feelings and states. These states of the experiencer may sometimes be considered as a confirmation of his innate disposition, or the religious experience and proof of human nature maybe hastily deemed the same. However, there are essential differences between them which cause their manner of knowledge enhancement and their scope of knowledge to be different. Hence, the present study deems it necessary to first provide a brief definition of these two terms and then examines them comparatively.