Communio Issue
The Nature of Experience
Table of Contents
Articles in this issue
Living and Thinking Reality in Its Integrity: Originary Experience, God, and the Task of Education
"Originary experience embeds a desire of man to say forever: to give the whole of himself irrevocably to the whole of God, in a way that involves the whole of creation."
Experience and Its Claim to Universality
"Does experience hold us open to the whole of reality? And if so, how are we to understand this achievement of experience?"
Growing Human: The Experience of God and of Man in the Work of Luigi Giussani
“For Giussani, experience is ‘bumping into a sign, an objective reality that moves the person toward his telos, toward his destiny.’”
On Experience and Reason
“While the conventional contemporary view of the world conceives of thought as opposed to, or at any rate outside of, the real, the classical worldview understands thought as a deepening of the real, and therefore as a bringing of experience to fruition.”
Experience of Nature, Moral Experience: Interpreting Veritatis splendor's "Perspective of the Acting Person"
"Is the perspective of the acting person really exhaustively intentional?"
Taste and See: The Body and the Experience of God
“The space opened in man by the bodily senses and affectivity is the space in which God’s Word has let himself be experienced in fullness.”
Experience, Feminism, and the Need for Christian Witnesses
“Christian witness begins, if you will, with a kind of ocular evidence of something else .”