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In Senses of Mystery, Bernard Verkamp first distinguishes the purely natural sense of mystery from the specifically religious sense of mystery. He then leads the reader to the conclusion that it is precisely in the shared experience of mystery that science and religion have their best chance at reconciliation.

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SENSES OF MYSTERY Religious and Non-Religious by BERNARD J VERKAMP - photo 1
SENSES OF MYSTERY
Religious and Non-Religious
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BERNARD J. VERKAMP
UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON PRESS

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(c) 1997
by University of Scranton Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Verkamp, Bernard J. (Bernard Joseph), 1938
Senses of mystery : religious and non-religious / by Bernard J. Verkamp.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-940866-60-9 (hard). -- ISBN 0-940866-61-7 (pbk.)
1. Mystery. 2. Rationalism. I. Title.
BT127.5.V47 1997
230--dc21
96-49177
CIP
Marketing and Distribution
Fordham University Press
University Box L
Bronx NY 10458
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To my friend and former teacher,
Lawrence F. Barmann
Page vii

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
1.
Denial of Mystery
1
2.
The Aesthetic Sense of Mystery
19
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The Skeptical Sense of Mystery
45
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The Sacral Sense of Mystery
67
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The Immanentist Sense of Mystery
85
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The Transcendent Sense of Mystery
107
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Conclusion: The Mystery of Man
129
Abbreviations
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Bibliography
141
Index
155

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Picture 2
Quotations from "The Heritage of Christian Thought" by Robert Earl Cushman. Copyright (c) 1965 Robert E. Cushman and Egil Grislis. By permission of Harper Collins Publishers.
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Quotations from "Consciousness Explained" by Daniel Dennett. Copyright (c) 1991 by Daniel C. Dennett. By permission of Little, Brown and Company.
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Quotations from Louis Dupre, "Transcendent Selfhood" (New York: The Seabury Press, 1976).
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Quotations from Emile Durkheim, "The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life" (New York: Macmillan, 1965).
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Quotations from Gordon Kaufman, "On the Meaning of 'God': Transcendence Without Mythology," in "New Theology No. 4," ed. by Martin E. Marty (New York: Macmillan, 1967).
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Quotations from John Macquarrie, "Mystery and Truth" (Milwaukee: The Marquette University Press, 1985). Quoted with permission from The Marquette University Press.
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Quotations from Colin McGinn, "The Problem of Consciousness" (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991). Quoted with permission from Blackwell Publishers.
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Quotations from Milton K. Munitz, "Cosmic Understanding." Copyright (c) 1986 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission from Princeton University Press.
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Quotations from Thomas Nagel, "The View From Nowhere" (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
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Quotations from Rudolf Otto, "The Idea of the Holy," translated by John W. Harvey (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 1950 [Galaxy Book, 1958].) Quoted by permission of Oxford University Press.
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Quotations from Heinz Pagels, "Perfect Symmetry, The Search for the Beginning of Time" (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985).
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Quotations from Bertrand Russell, "Mysticism and Logic" (Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble Books, 1976).
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