Throwing Corbin a Bone, or at least an Alka-Selzer
Just getting into the 2nd chapter of The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation. Maybe some of this will help keep your stomach contents in check.
Berger writes in "Religion: experience, Tradition, and Reflection"
Short bio on Berger can be found at Boston University where he teaches.
Berger writes in "Religion: experience, Tradition, and Reflection"
The concern of this book is to explore the possibilities of passing from {the heretical imperative] to positive religious affirmations, to statements about the world that can plausibly be prefaced by the words, "I believe." This project proposes that the heretical imperative can be turned from an obstacle to an aid both to religious faith and to reflection about it. The project, of course, is in itself an act of reflection: This book is an argument, and exercise in religious though, not a confessional document or a guide to religious experience. It is all the more important to keep in mind that religion is not primarily a matter of reflection or of theorizing. At the heart of the religious phenomenon is prereflective, pretheoretical experience. That must be done now is to look more closely at the character of this experience.
Short bio on Berger can be found at Boston University where he teaches.
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I must admit, though, that I didn't realize just how low my tolerance for academic jargon has become. I never did have much of a stomach for it, which is why I decided to eschew the life in academia and not pursue that PhD. But reading stuff like this now just makes me go, "ZZZZZZZZ." I know I would come off as much more intelligent if I said otherwise. :-)
You would totally hate systematic theology, by the way. The field most people end up in, but you would totally hate it.