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Author

• hamid khodabakhshian

Assistant Professor of Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute

Abstract

Religious science is a science influenced by religion. The effect of religion on knowledge depends on the existence of features in religion such as valid religious source, knowable content, and comprehensiveness and perfection of religion, which are called the theological foundations of religious science. Opposing these principles means opposing the possibility of religious science. Although the theory of religious experience was proposed with the motive of defending religious belief and in favor of the existence of God, it conflicted with some religious foundations. Religious empiricists, focusing on the dimension of human tendency towards religion, consider the essence of religion to be a kind of religious feeling and experience. They consider revelation to be the prophet's religious experience, and the prophet's message is a personal interpretation of that experience and is influenced by human characteristics. These positions are incompatible with theological foundations of religious science and oppose the possibility of religious science. Explaining the relationship between the theory of religious experience and the theological foundations of religious science and, accordingly, with the possibility of religious science, is the problem of this research, which was conducted with an analytical and comparative method, and at the end, the incompatibility of this theory with religious science was concluded.

Keywords

• Religious science
• Religious empiricism
• reason and revelation
• revelation
• religious knowledge
• the gem and shell of religion