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What is Revelation

Phenomenological Approaches to Religion and Spirituality
Revelation is when something that was hidden becomes known. For many religious people revelation comes from God and reveals something about God. There are two types of revelation: General (or indirect) revelation. It is called 'general' or 'indirect' because it is available to everyone. There is also Special (or direct) revelation. This type is identified as 'direct' because it is revelation directly to an individual or sometimes a group. Specifically, in religion and/or theology, revelation is the revealing or disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity or entities.
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Phenomenology of Religious Experience: A Christian Perspective
Joseph Olufemi Asha (Baptist College of Theology, Lagos, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4595-9.ch013
Abstract
In the Christian tradition, a spiritual experience is a phenomenon that in some sense remains controversial. Nonetheless, spiritual experience in Christianity refers to the personalization of the faith in Christ that transcends the normal. This is, however, critically contested and regrettably unexplored. It lends credence to why contemporary research on religious experience reveals that Christian spiritual experiences have the element of supernatural intervention by the Holy Spirit, although supernatural must not be confused with spectacular. It might be spectacular, as in the case of Paul on the road to Damascus (Acts 9). Drawing upon extensive contemporary research, content analysis, and literature on religious experience, this study adopts descriptive methodology as techniques. The study situates religious experience as occurrence in an everyday situation of Christians through which they derive a clear inner realization of “the truth.” Findings reveal a significant implication for collective research on religious and spiritual experiences for Christians.
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