استدلال تجربه ديني بر وجود خدا و پلوراليسم ديني

اثر حاضر به دنبال اثبات اين مدعاست كه يكي از راه‌هاي شناخت خدا، تجربه ديني است. براي اين منظور، ابتدا تقريرهاي مختلف استدلال تجربه ديني مطرح شده است و سپس به برخي از تجربه‌هاي ديني اشاره نموده‌ايم. در ادامه اشكال يكي از منتقدان استدلال تجربه ديني، يعني جان هاسپرز مطرح شده و مورد بررسي قرار گرفته است. اين اشكال هاسپرز بر آن است كه قبول صحت استدلال تجربه ديني مستلزم پذيرش عقايد متناقض و ناسازگار است و اين مسأله چيزي جز پذيرش كثرت گرايي ديني نيست. نويسنده در نقد اين اشكال دو مسأله را مورد بررسي قرار داده است:

This article attempts to show that religious experience is a source of knowledge of existence of God. To this end, first, several versions of reasoning of religious experience are stated. Then, objection of John Hospers, a critique of religious experience is reviewed. According to Hospers verification of argument from religious experience leads to paradoxical beliefs to which means nothing but religious pluralism. The author raises two considerations: First, religious experience like sensory experience, is a source of knowledge, secondly, opposing views on religious experience are justified as they are justified in the case of sensory experience. The author concludes that most of opposing views on religious experience could be attributed to the variety of God’s names. The reliability of the remaining views may be verified by the standards of reason and the holy book.