By Bernard J. Verkamp
In Senses of puzzle, Bernard Verkamp first distinguishes the "purely average" experience of poser from the particularly non secular experience of mystery. He then leads the reader to the realization that it's accurately within the shared event of poser that technological know-how and faith have their most sensible probability at reconciliation.
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Cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-940866-60-9 (hard). ) 1. Mystery. 2. Rationalism. I. Title. 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 3. The Skeptical Sense of Mystery 45 4. The Sacral Sense of Mystery 67 5.
Religious thinkers might in fact conclude that the more we understand about the operation of the universe, the more fascinating does its very existence become, and see in the cosmic contingency implied thereby a basis for a religious experience of mystery in terms of transcendence. Or, it might also serve as a springboard for a pantheist or panentheist interpretation of the cosmos, and trigger a religious sense of mystery along immanentist lines. A second variation of the purely natural sense of mystery is taken up in Chapter Three and described along multiple lines of thought as a skeptical sense of mystery.
To that extent, their attitude actually involves a rejection of the sense of mystery as it is generally understood by religious people. Yet another, third possible variation of the purely natural sense of mystery is only hinted at in Chapters One and Four of this book. It is what I would call a paradoxical sense of mystery, and represents an attitude that was perhaps grounded in the dialectical thrust of Ludwig Feuerbach's anthropological/philosophical ruminations, and found clearest expression more recently in the thinking of "Death of God" 1 theologians like Thomas Altizer and William Hamilton, whose "radicalization of the secular" would seem to involve so passionate a denial of mystery as almost to become a paradoxical reassertion of the same.