Knowing with the Heart: Religious Experience & Belief in God

by Roy A. Clouser

Book Overview

The famous scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal memorably said that the heart has its reasons the mind will never know. But too often it's forgotten that Pascal, in referring to the heart's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830815074
• ISBN13: 9780830815074
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: InterVarsity Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Christian argumentation at its best!

This book is powerful! Written at the college level and in a fun-to-read question and answer format, this book presents an argument for the true knowledge of God that cannot be ignored.

A wonderful, thoughtful, book from a very precise thinker.

Dr. Clouser very precisely outlines the connection between one's self-evident experience(s) of God and one's right to claim that s/he knows God. Rather than try to prove that one should believe in God, Clouser shows how one's belief in God comes about from one's experiences of God, whether they be from in-your-face-see-glowing-angels type of experiences, or just the knowledge of God that comes from walking with Him your whole life. Clouser's understanding of Pascal's theme of the heart focuses on the idea of self-evidency, instead of feelings, and instead of what one would usually categorize as an "experience of God." Top-notch writing, very understandable. This is a prime example of great Christian philosophy.