Someone may ask what the reasons are for putting religious experience and transcendence together. My answer is the following. My general philosophical position is empirical by nature. I am of the opinion that everything that is said about reality must in some way or other, in order to be true or probable, be related to or grounded in reality. If God is thought to be real in some sense of the word and if he is said to have the quality (...) of being transcendent, there must be some sort of empirical reasons for it. Experience is generally - at least in its objective variant - a usual way of motivating propositions about reality. There is therefore reason to ask: Is there anything in religious experience that motivates giving God the predicate of transcendence? And on the other hand: What conditions would there have to be in our world of experience to justify a consideration of a theory of Transcendence? (shrink)

Most reasonable people acknowledge that Karl Helge Hampus Hellekant has committed a grave moral offense: the 33-year-old Swede, also known as Karl Svensson, was convicted of killing trade unionist Björn Söderberg in 1999 at the behest of the Swedish neo-Nazi movement. What is not so clear is whether Hellekant, who is currently free on parole, should be permitted to become a physician. The former extremist was admitted to the medical school at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute in 2007, but later expelled—following (...) considerable public debate—after school officials discovered that he was temporarily unable to verify his academic records. Sweden’s most prestigious medical school, Uppsala, subsequently confirmed these records and matricatulated him in 2008. (shrink)

Was ist Religion in der Religionsphilosophie von Heinrich Scholz? / Theodor Mahlmann -- Husserls phänomenologischer Zugangsweg zu den Problemen der Religion / Ludwig Landgrebe -- Religion, Religionsphilosophie und Theologie bei Geradus van der Leeuw / Hubertus G. Hubbeling -- Anders Nygrens Religionsbegriff / Hampus Lyttkens -- Charles S. Peirce's Religionsphilosophie als Metaphysik der Evolution / Hermann Deuser -- Die theoretische Theologie der Prozessphilosophie Whiteheads / Ingolf U. Dalferth -- Metaphysik und Religion im Spätwerk Knud Logstrups / Svend Andersen.