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Religious Experience and Hermeneutic Description

Shin-Hann Choi 1

1한남대학교

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ABSTRACT

Religious experience is the lived experience of the new. This paper aims to illumine the lived experience of the new through methods of hermeneutics in Goettingen school, and for this it intends to analyse the concept of phenomenological-hermeneutic description. First, this paper analyses Georg Misch’ concept of evoking speech. Evoking speech reveals the transcendent world by means of awakening the being beyond the world. It unveils religious experience, e.i. the inestimable significance of life. Misch intends to extend traditional logic to hermeneutic logic, and as a result of that he can conceptualize the infinite. Second, this paper analyses Josef König’s concept of aesthetic effect, that connects human with artwork and reveals this as a fact. The predicate of aesthetic effect is not the determined predicate, but the modifying. It occurs a significance of being in inwardness with the help of the modifying predicate. The aesthetic effect is similar with religious experience in regard that it makes the new in inwardness. The origin of new significance is the effect that makes human as a new being. Third, this paper analyses Bollnow’s concept of articulating description. It can reveal the religious experience through hitting the spiritual life aptly. The hitting speech evokes concealed being. The hermeneutics of Goettingen school presents ways to the inscrutability and inexhaustibility of life.

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