The Experience of God

Robyn Horner is Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. She writes at the intersections of hermeneutic phenomenology, poststructuralism and fundamental theology. Professor Horner is also the author of Rethinking God as Gift: Marion, Derrida and the Limits of Phenomenology (Fordham University Press, 2001) and of Jean-Luc Marion: A Theo-Logical Introduction (Ashgate, 2005). She is in addition the volume editor, alongside Claude Roman, of The Experience of Atheism: Phenomenology, Metaphysics and Religion (Bloomsbury, 2021).

• Part I. The Problem in Context: 1. Introduction to the book; 2. Living in a secular age; Part II. Revelation in contemporary philosophy and theology: 3. Revelation as a philosophical problem; 4. Revelation as a theological problem I – Theology and metaphysics; Part III. THe Event of Revelation: 6. A hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to theology; 7. Revelation exceeds experience; 8. Revelation affects experience; 9. Revelation shapes experience; 10. The event in person – Revelation transforms.

'This is a book of strong and impressive scholarship. It covers important theological territory, as it tries to come to terms with the notion of revelation and its possibility within a post-metaphysical world, using various lenses of French phenomenology especially to focus the task.' Andrew W. Hass, University of Stirling