Religion in Essence and Manifestation

by Gerardus van der Leeuw, Ninian Smart (Translator), John Evan Turner (Translator)

In this book van der Leeuw discusses the horizontal path to God and the vertical paths descending from God and ascending to Him. If God Himself appears, it is in a totally different manner, which results not in intelligible utterance, but in proclamation; and it is with this that theology has to deal."

Originally published in 1986.

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Genres: Philosophy, Religion, Nonfiction

780 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1933

About the author

Gerardus van der Leeuw was a Dutch historian and philosopher of religion.
He is best known for his work Religion in Essence and Manifestation: A Study in Phenomenology, an application of philosophical phenomenology to religion. It was first published in 1933 under the German title Phänomenologie der Religion and translated into English in 1938.
From 1945–1946 van der Leeuw was minister of Education of the Netherlands for the Labour Party. Before the war he had been a member of the conservative Christian Historical Union.

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 3 out of 5]

This set of volumes was assigned reading for some class at Union Theological Seminary. It reminded me of reading Rudolf Otto in college and, like The Idea of the Holy, it didn't interest me very much.