Mysticism as a phenomenological process

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Carlos Arboleda Mora

Abstract

This article studies the mystical process not as a religious experience, that is only to be considered from the theological point of view, but as a  phenomenological process that leads to the full manifestation of the saturated phenomenon. The husserlian phenomenological reductions are realized in the mystical process and drive to the experience of the saturated phenomenon as Jean-Luc Marion understands it. The phenomenology ndicates the process and the mysticism, as that of Saint John of the Cross, shows the real possibility of the giveness (donation). Only this donation is possible to be expressed in symbolic language since the concept cannot contain it. 

Keywords:
Mystics Philosophy of religion Phenomenology of religion

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Author Biography

Carlos Arboleda Mora, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

Sociólogo de la Universidad Gregoriana de Roma. Master en Historia por la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín. Actualmente es profesor de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Director del Grupo de Investigación «Religión y Cultura» de la misma Universidad. Director del Secretariado de ecumenismo de la Arquidiócesis de Medellín. Ha publicado entre otros: Adolescentes y Satanismo, Secum, Medellín 1999; El pluralismo religioso en Colombia, Secum, Medellín 1999; El politeísmo católico, UPB, Medellín 2001; Guerra y religión en Colombia, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín 2006. Además de numerosos artículos en diversas revistas.