The Experience of God: A Postmodern Response

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Index Abraham, hope of, 32–33, 43 Absence of God, 116–18 of objects, 97–98 Absolute, the empiricism, 20 future, 33–34 realm of, 100–103, 109 Absolute empiricism, 20 Absolute future, 33–34 Accountability, in feminist theology, 60–64 Adam/Christ typology, 203–4 Affection, 106–7, 171 Affective situation, 101–3 Affirmation, of transcendence, 122 African American preachers, female. See also Foote, Julia as narrators, 179–84 of the nineteenth century, 173–74, 176–77 orality of, 174–77, 179 sermons of, 173–74, 176–77 storytelling of, 180–81 styles of, 178–79 African Americans church worship of, 177 251 identity of, 67, 175 oppression of, 67 Aggression, 171–72 Ahab, struggles of, 207, 240n51 Alter ego, 141, 150–52 A.M.E. Zion Church, origin of, 183, 237n22 American whaling industry, 243n90 Annihilation, 166–69, 172 Anselm, 76 Anteriority of posteriority, 122–23 Antimodernity, icons of, 63 Anti-Semitism, in France, 61–62 Anxiety, of death, 108 Apophatic theology, 152 Aquinas, Thomas, 44–46 Archetypes, of human nature, 198–201 Aristotle, 26–27 Art, visual, 218n1 Atheism, 120–24 Attention, pure, 82–83 Attitude, natural, 94 Attunement, 12, 111 Augustine (saint), 41–43, 56–57, 85–86 Autobiography, of black female preachers, 174, 179 Balentine, Samuel, 114–16 Barth, Karl, 5–6, 75, 223n12 Basileia, 84–85 Batnitzky, Leora, 125–26 Beauvoir, Simone de, 220n13 Being. See also Being-in-the-world with, 96 affection in, 106–7, 171 aggression in, 171–72 desire in, 110–11, 165–66, 170–71 finite, 74–75, 165 humility in, 169, 171–72, 235n17 infinite, 74–75 Being and Time (Heidegger), 14–15, 105–8 Being-in-the-world, 94–96, 98–103, 109, 139 Beloved (Morrison), 175–76 Black church, 190, 236n17, 236n22 Brand Plucked From the Fire, A (Foote), 174, 182, 187–88 Call and response, 181, 238n32 Cartography, 20 Changing the Subject: Women’s Discourse and Feminist Theology (Fulkerson), 219n9 Chaos, 161–66, 169, 172 Children of love, 36 Christian freedom, 45 Circulation, of experience, 220n13 Climacus, Johannes, 21–22, 29–30 Clot, experiential, 55–57, 67–68 Coexistence, 94–96 Cognitive understanding, 139–40, 145 Coincidence, 132–33, 216n6 Communal state, of prayer, 108–9 Communion, of prayer, 99–102 Community black church, 190, 237n22 of feminist women, 47–48 identity of, 67–69 Johannine, 2 peaceful, 110 Concentration, on faith, 82 Confessions (Augustine), 17, 56–57 Conscience, 125 Conscious life, 151 252 Index Consciousness ego as, 95–96 inner structure of, 13, 150 names of, 94–96 raising of, 47–48, 220n14 representational, 93–94 thought and, 123 transformation of, 152–55 Constraints, of ontotheology, 20–21 Conversion, preaching for, 4 Coram deo, 11, 12, 97 Correlation, in idolatry, 157–58, 163 Correlational theologies, 5–7 Counterexperience, 14, 224–25n26 Courage, 27–28 Creed, the, 78–79 Crisis divine absence in, 116–18 of intentionality, 96 reaction in, 120–24 Dancing, ‘‘worldly,’’ 184, 187–88 Dasein, 94–96, 106–8 Death remainders at, 101–2 suffering and, 127–28, 132–33 Deception, of idolatry, 53–54 Depravity, in human nature, 194–95 Dereliction, atheism and, 121–22 Derrida, Jacques, 113 Descartes, René, 74 Desire natural, 165–66 religious, 170–71 worldly fuel of, 110–11 De Trinitate (Augustine), 82, 85 Deus dixit, 6–7, 75 Diana, Princess of Whales, 51–52, 54 Dignity, in human nature, 58, 196–97 Dispossessed king, 199–201 Disruption, 13–14 Distractions, of human nature, 195–96 Diverse theologies, 48 Divine absence, 116–18 interpretation, 53–57, 72 longing of, 204–6 love, 14 objectivity, 111, 124 reflections, 73–74 Divine Names, The (Pseudo-Dionysius), 141 Divisions, in experience, 3–4 Doty, Thomas K., 181–82 Economic Trinity, 11 Ecstasy, 224n23 Edge of experience, 221n15 Ego alter, 141, 150–52 as consciousness, 95–96 displaced, 16 intention of, 107 perception of, 91–92, 93 Égoı̈sme á deux, 9 Egology, 158–61 Eliot, T. S., 8–10 Emotional empathy, 152–53 Emotional feelings, 4–5 Emotional life, 101 Empathy, 138, 140–41, 144–45, 150–53 Empiricism, absolute, 20 Empiricist, 23 Empty experience, 141, 205–6 Encyclopedia (Hegel), 74–75 Epiphany, 69 Ethical humanity, 124–25 Ethical relations, 122–23 Ethics of suffering, 127–28 in Torah, 119–20 Evaluation, of sermon, 238n32 Excellence, of human nature, 26, 196–97 Existence, 94–96, 106–8 liturgy and, 98 question about, 243n85 Expectation...