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My soul is sorrowful even unto death : Stay you here and watch with Me -
Moreover, this consciousness of the Divine Presence, and the regulation of our lives accordingly is the fulfillment of God's command to His people which was given to Abraham -
Comprise His bands. In Gethsemane! Lord, I long to be To watch with Thee. Evermore shall I Strive to live -
Grief, ah bitter grief! Even no relief From Angel hands ! But a cup of gaii
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. All quotations from the Bible and the Apocrypha are from the RSV. Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Apocrypha, copyright 1957; The Third and Fourth Books of the Maccabees and Psalm 151, copyright 1977 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-25044-7
- Pages
- 41 –46
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-25045-4_7
- Publisher site
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Abstract
[With this chapter the book turns to a consideration of the religious experience of coming into the presence of God and the thesis that coming into the presence of God is structurally similar to coming into the presence of persons. Though coming into the presence of God, like coming into the presence of persons, is a unified experience, as coming into the presence of persons has four interlocking elements so coming into the presence of God has four interlocking elements. Chapters 8–11 will present and examine the four elements of the experience of coming into the presence of God. In this chapter the Jewish and Christian scriptural tradition is consulted to show how the experience of coming into the presence of God is recognized in the Jewish and Christian traditions, and the religious experience of coming into God’s presence is distinguished from other religious experiences, such as prophetic experience and experiencing religious visions. Several initial points of analogy between coming into the presence of God and coming into the presence of persons are noted. For instance, as coming into the presence of God is different from reasoning from the “shadow” of God (seen in his creation) to the presence of God, so coming into the presence of a person is different from seeing the shadow of a person and reasoning that a person is nearby, which is reasoning to the physical presence of a person, not coming into that person’s presence.]
Published: Jul 31, 2019
Keywords: Religious experience; The presence of God; The Psalms; Structural analogy