Thomas Hardtke is a PhD Candidate in German Literature at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests include Literature and Religion, Literature and Madness, Narratology, Museum Studies, and Literary Education.Ulrich Schmiedel, D. Phil. (Oxford), is a Postdoc in Systematic Theology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. His research – located at the intersection of theology, sociology and philosophy – concentrates on contemporary Christianity. Recently, he co-edited Dynamics of Difference (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015).Tobias Tan is reading for a D. Phil. in Theology as the Arthur Peacocke Senior Scholar in Science and Theology at Exeter College, University of Oxford. His doctoral research brings insights from ‘embodied cognition’ into dialogue with theology.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Experience or Expression? A Puzzling Oversight - Thomas Hardtke, Ulrich Schmiedel, Tobias TanPart I - Grasping the Ungraspable Chapter 1. How to do Transcendence with Words? The Problem of Articulation in Religious Experience - Jörg Lauster Chapter 2. Modern Trials and Texts of ‘Experience’: Plastic Commonplace and Managed Expectation - Yvonne SherwoodPart II - Imagining the UnimaginableChapter 3. Fiercely Proselytizing and Feverishly Protective: Reading John’s Revelation with Jacques Derrida - Hannah M. StrømmenChapter 4. Religious Experience without Belief? Toward an Imaginative Account of Religious Engagement - Amber L. Griffioen Chapter 5. “Is that You?” Hearing God’s Voice in the Words of a Stranger: Judges 6:11-24 - Catherine Lewis-Smith Chapter 6. Living with Invisibility: Emotion, Mind and Transcendence - Graham Ward Part III - Interpreting the UninterpretableChapter 7. Navid Kermani’s Poetic Hermeneutics of Religious Experience - Johannes Kleine Chapter 8. The Complexity of Hermeneutical Experience - Werner G. JeanrondChapter 9. Mediated Immediacy: Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx on the Non-Reflective Element of Experience - Marijn de JongChapter 10. Supra-Religious? The Concept of Transcendental Experience and the In/Accessibility of the Absolute - Knut WenzelPart IV - Performing the Unperformable Chapter 11. The Trouble with Trust in the Transcendent: Ernst Troeltsch’s Reception of William James - Ulrich Schmiedel Chapter 12. The Corporeality of Religious Experience: Embodied Cognition in Religious Practices - Tobias TanChapter 13. Religious Experience in Fourteenth Century Mystical Writing: The Revelations of Elsbeth von Oye - Johannes M. Depnering Chapter 14. Speaking of God: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Paradox of Religious Experience - Brian KlugConclusion: Experience or Expression? Preserving the Puzzle - Thomas Hardtke, Ulrich Schmiedel, Tobias TanIndex

Thomas Hardtke is a PhD Candidate in German Literature at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests include Literature and Religion, Literature and Madness, Narratology, Museum Studies, and Literary Education.Ulrich Schmiedel, D. Phil. (Oxford), is a Postdoc in Systematic Theology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. His research – located at the intersection of theology, sociology and philosophy – concentrates on contemporary Christianity. Recently, he co-edited Dynamics of Difference (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015).Tobias Tan is reading for a D. Phil. in Theology as the Arthur Peacocke Senior Scholar in Science and Theology at Exeter College, University of Oxford. His doctoral research brings insights from ‘embodied cognition’ into dialogue with theology.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Experience or Expression? A Puzzling Oversight - Thomas Hardtke, Ulrich Schmiedel, Tobias TanPart I - Grasping the Ungraspable Chapter 1. How to do Transcendence with Words? The Problem of Articulation in Religious Experience - Jörg Lauster Chapter 2. Modern Trials and Texts of ‘Experience’: Plastic Commonplace and Managed Expectation - Yvonne SherwoodPart II - Imagining the UnimaginableChapter 3. Fiercely Proselytizing and Feverishly Protective: Reading John’s Revelation with Jacques Derrida - Hannah M. StrømmenChapter 4. Religious Experience without Belief? Toward an Imaginative Account of Religious Engagement - Amber L. Griffioen Chapter 5. “Is that You?” Hearing God’s Voice in the Words of a Stranger: Judges 6:11-24 - Catherine Lewis-Smith Chapter 6. Living with Invisibility: Emotion, Mind and Transcendence - Graham Ward Part III - Interpreting the UninterpretableChapter 7. Navid Kermani’s Poetic Hermeneutics of Religious Experience - Johannes Kleine Chapter 8. The Complexity of Hermeneutical Experience - Werner G. JeanrondChapter 9. Mediated Immediacy: Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx on the Non-Reflective Element of Experience - Marijn de JongChapter 10. Supra-Religious? The Concept of Transcendental Experience and the In/Accessibility of the Absolute - Knut WenzelPart IV - Performing the Unperformable Chapter 11. The Trouble with Trust in the Transcendent: Ernst Troeltsch’s Reception of William James - Ulrich Schmiedel Chapter 12. The Corporeality of Religious Experience: Embodied Cognition in Religious Practices - Tobias TanChapter 13. Religious Experience in Fourteenth Century Mystical Writing: The Revelations of Elsbeth von Oye - Johannes M. Depnering Chapter 14. Speaking of God: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Paradox of Religious Experience - Brian KlugConclusion: Experience or Expression? Preserving the Puzzle - Thomas Hardtke, Ulrich Schmiedel, Tobias TanIndex

Thomas Hardtke is a PhD Candidate in German Literature at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests include Literature and Religion, Literature and Madness, Narratology, Museum Studies, and Literary Education.Ulrich Schmiedel, D. Phil. (Oxford), is a Postdoc in Systematic Theology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. His research – located at the intersection of theology, sociology and philosophy – concentrates on contemporary Christianity. Recently, he co-edited Dynamics of Difference (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015).Tobias Tan is reading for a D. Phil. in Theology as the Arthur Peacocke Senior Scholar in Science and Theology at Exeter College, University of Oxford. His doctoral research brings insights from ‘embodied cognition’ into dialogue with theology.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Experience or Expression? A Puzzling Oversight - Thomas Hardtke, Ulrich Schmiedel, Tobias TanPart I - Grasping the Ungraspable Chapter 1. How to do Transcendence with Words? The Problem of Articulation in Religious Experience - Jörg Lauster Chapter 2. Modern Trials and Texts of ‘Experience’: Plastic Commonplace and Managed Expectation - Yvonne SherwoodPart II - Imagining the UnimaginableChapter 3. Fiercely Proselytizing and Feverishly Protective: Reading John’s Revelation with Jacques Derrida - Hannah M. StrømmenChapter 4. Religious Experience without Belief? Toward an Imaginative Account of Religious Engagement - Amber L. Griffioen Chapter 5. “Is that You?” Hearing God’s Voice in the Words of a Stranger: Judges 6:11-24 - Catherine Lewis-Smith Chapter 6. Living with Invisibility: Emotion, Mind and Transcendence - Graham Ward Part III - Interpreting the UninterpretableChapter 7. Navid Kermani’s Poetic Hermeneutics of Religious Experience - Johannes Kleine Chapter 8. The Complexity of Hermeneutical Experience - Werner G. JeanrondChapter 9. Mediated Immediacy: Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx on the Non-Reflective Element of Experience - Marijn de JongChapter 10. Supra-Religious? The Concept of Transcendental Experience and the In/Accessibility of the Absolute - Knut WenzelPart IV - Performing the Unperformable Chapter 11. The Trouble with Trust in the Transcendent: Ernst Troeltsch’s Reception of William James - Ulrich Schmiedel Chapter 12. The Corporeality of Religious Experience: Embodied Cognition in Religious Practices - Tobias TanChapter 13. Religious Experience in Fourteenth Century Mystical Writing: The Revelations of Elsbeth von Oye - Johannes M. Depnering Chapter 14. Speaking of God: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Paradox of Religious Experience - Brian KlugConclusion: Experience or Expression? Preserving the Puzzle - Thomas Hardtke, Ulrich Schmiedel, Tobias TanIndex