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A modern philosopher described religion as "that region in which all the enigmas of the world are solved." Smith argues in Experience and God that religion itself has become an enigma for modern man. In the book, smith attempts to reunite philosophy with religion. He argues that in recent decades the prevailing attitude has been chiefly one of indifference. This indifference, leading to the failure of understanding can be overcome only through radical reflection and self-criticism: a re-consideration of the nature of religion, its place in the total structure of human life, and its relations to the secular culture in which the faith of man must live. The task Smith lays out must be of a largely philosophical nature, not only because of the necessity to understand religion in relation to a comprehensive scheme of things, but also because the idea of religion is intimately connected with the issues of metaphysics. Smith's purpose is to bridge the gap between the ontological approach to God as represented by Augustine, Anselm, and Bonaventure, and the cosmological approach represented by Thomas Aquinas and Albert the Great. Smith shows that, although the two approaches significantly differ, they can be interpreted as ways of leading the meditating mind to the Presence of God, through the soul and through the world.
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Jamison Murphy
reviewed Experience and God on August 11, 2016
Experience and God
This book was probably absolutely amazing when it came out - 37 years ago. It focuses on the tedious issues of the (then) field and, because of that, makes itself irrelevant 2 score later. It's great for covering some interesting information but you can get better, and quicker, elsewhere. The 53 page introductory chapter is dedicated to the definition and scope of pragmatics, which he never lands on, and painfully invalidates every possible definition before landing on "maybe everything outside of semantics - but this means we need to properly define semantics and that's difficult so maybe semantics is truth conditionals?"
I found myself dreading picking it up. It is written only for someone with at least a bachelors in linguistics from a good school that would hit semantics hard. I can't imagine ever recommending this book to someone when deixis, presupposition, implicature, and conversation analysis is covered elsewhere better - for the latter two, I'd suggest Thomas Holtgraves's "Language as Social Action."
That being said, Levinson is an absolute behemoth. He's a pioneer in politeness theory, has pushed the knowledge of pragmatics, and has for deeeecades. He wrote this book around the time he was my age and I absolutely hate him for it. He's a filthy, filthy genius.
But this book is still terrible in 2020.
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