Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally b...
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| description | The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally been understood either as religious experiences or else as a feature of mental illness. Some critics of traditional religious faith have dismissed the visions and voices attributed to biblical characters and saints as evidence of mental disorder. However, it is now known that many ordinary people, with no other evidence of mental disorder, also hear voices and that these voices not infrequently include spiritual or religious content. Psychological and interdisciplinary research has shed a revealing light on these experiences in recent years, so that we now know much more about the phenomenon of "hearing voices" than ever before. The present work considers biblical, historical, and scientific accounts of spiritual and mystical experiences of voice hearing in the Christian tradition in order to explore how some voices may be understood theologically as revelatory. It is proposed that in the incarnation, Christian faith finds both an understanding of what it is to be fully human (a theological anthropology), and God’s perfect self-disclosure (revelation). Within such an understanding, revelatory voices represent a key point of interpersonal encounter between human beings and God. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1607702025-05-29T05:40:54Z Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine Cook, Christopher C. H. Young Man gods Voice Hearing avhs visionary Voice Hearing Experiences Human Suffering experience God’s Voice hebrew Temporal Lobe Epilepsy scripture Brierre De Boismont temporal Divine Human Communication lobe Christian Religious Experience epilepsy religious Hebrew Scripture Ignatian Spiritual Exercises Predictive Processing Theories Modern Scientific Criteria Specific Divine Action Bernadette Soubirous Religious Hallucinations Christological Emphasis Visionary Experiences thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAM Religious issues and debates::QRAM3 Religion and science thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKM Clinical psychology::MKMT Psychotherapy The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally been understood either as religious experiences or else as a feature of mental illness. Some critics of traditional religious faith have dismissed the visions and voices attributed to biblical characters and saints as evidence of mental disorder. However, it is now known that many ordinary people, with no other evidence of mental disorder, also hear voices and that these voices not infrequently include spiritual or religious content. Psychological and interdisciplinary research has shed a revealing light on these experiences in recent years, so that we now know much more about the phenomenon of "hearing voices" than ever before. The present work considers biblical, historical, and scientific accounts of spiritual and mystical experiences of voice hearing in the Christian tradition in order to explore how some voices may be understood theologically as revelatory. It is proposed that in the incarnation, Christian faith finds both an understanding of what it is to be fully human (a theological anthropology), and God’s perfect self-disclosure (revelation). Within such an understanding, revelatory voices represent a key point of interpersonal encounter between human beings and God. 2025-05-29T05:40:53Z 2025-05-29T05:40:53Z 2025-05-28T08:26:39Z 2018 book ONIX_20250528T101339_9780429750953_99 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102968 9780429750953 9780429423093 9780429750946 9780429750939 9780367582432 9781472453983 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160770 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102968/1/9780429750953.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429423093 10.4324/9780429423093 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 f6fcd900-36e2-4bc9-939e-ad820802e21f d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9780429750953 9780429423093 9780429750946 9780429750939 9780367582432 9781472453983 Wellcome Routledge 266 Oxford [...] Wellcome Trust Wellcome 10.13039/100010269 open access |
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