Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-215) and index.

Part 1 A Phenomenological Approach -- 1 Constituents and Classification 3 -- Types 9 -- Other Typologies 10 -- 2 Narratives 14 -- An Instance of Aesthetic Experience 14 -- An Instance of Ontological Experience 16 -- An Instance of Ethical Experience 20 -- An Instance of Interpersonal Experience 22 -- Part 2 Historic Contributions -- 3 Kant and the Sublime 27 -- Phenomenology 28 -- Mediation of the Mind 31 -- Unfolding of the Mathematical Sublime 37 -- Concept of Infinite 40 -- 4 Schleiermacher and Absolute Dependence 47 -- In the Wake of Kant 47 -- A Tripartite Division of Human Life 49 -- Feeling 51 -- Mediatedness 54 -- Absolute Dependence 57 -- Awareness of the 'Whence' 59 -- Experience and Objectification 64 -- 5 Hegel and the Dialectic of the Infinite 69 -- Rejection of Kant's Infinite 70 -- Assessment of Hegel's Criticism of Kant 77 -- Rejection of Schleiermacher's Absolute Dependence 82 -- Assessment of Hegel's Criticism of Schleiermacher 86 -- 6 William James and Religious Experience 89 -- Four Marks of Mysticism 90 -- Feeling and Thought 92 -- Pragmatic Method 95 -- Divine as an Undubitable Object 99 -- Will to Believe 101 -- 7 Rudolf Otto and the Numinous 105 -- Feeling or Emotion? 106 -- Uniqueness and Ineffability 109 -- Non-rational and the Rational 111 -- Holy as an A Priori Category 116 -- A Faculty That Perceives the Numinous 120 -- 8 Marechal, Rahner, and Lonergan 125 -- From the Transcendental to the Transcendent 125 -- Fascination with the Mystery 128 -- Four Levels of Consciousness 132 -- Feeling 135 -- Immediacy and Mediation 137 -- Religious Experience and Conversion 139 -- Part 3 Validity of Transcendent Experiences -- Experience 146 -- Intentionality and Transcendence 151 -- Indefiniteness and the Infinite 156 -- Feeling and Discovery 161 -- Interpretation 166 -- Directness and Mediation 175.

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