Volume 27, Issue 2, Summer 1983
David Pellauer
Pages 138-143
Silence and the Phenomenology of Religious Experience
Pellauer's programmatic study neatly differentiates what he takes to he a proper phenomenology of religion from the works of W. Bede Kristensen, Cornelius Bleeker and Gerhard van der Leeuw. Following Husser's lead, but leaving aside Husser's idealism, Pellauer suggests that Husserl provides a useful theoretical model of experience, one which is "hypothetically applicable to all human experience." Pellauer then critically explores Husser's model. This exploration opens the way for Pellauer to suggest important ways in which the phenomenon of silence should he examined, ways not developed in Dauenhauer's study. What follows is the slightly edited second half of Pellauer's contribution.