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‘Seeing-as' in religion: discovery and community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2002

J. KELLENBERGER
J. KELLENBERGER
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, California State University, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330
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Abstract

‘Seeing-as’, or aspect seeing, is generally recognized as having significance for religion, especially so since Wittgenstein. Two questions arise regarding religiously seeing the world as God's creation: have the religious seen the world aright, and does the world religiously require a community that uses religious concepts? I argue that a particular strain of religious tradition provides us with a way to understand the issue of discovery, and that a traditional understanding of the power of God requires that a religious seeing of the world as God's creation, or a place of God's presence, can occur without there being a community that uses such religious concepts.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 101 - 108
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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