Ebook: The Significance of Religious Experience

Wettstein offers an original approach to these questions. And he provides new perspective on a variety of central topics: the nature of awe and its place at the heart of religious life; ritual; problems of evil and suffering, with special attention to the Book of Job and to the Akedah, the biblical story of the binding of Isaac; and the virtue of forgiveness. One of the book's highlights is its literary (as opposed to philosophical) approach to theology that at the same time makes room for philosophical exploration of religion. Another is Wettstein's rejection of the usual picture that sees religious life as sitting atop a distinctive metaphysical foundation, one that stands in need of epistemological justification.