ABSTRACT
Where modernist moral reasoning has led to a devaluation of values as mere indicators of human desires, this book has as its starting point the conviction that values both transcend the individual as well as are natural to them. This volume focuses on the interface between these seemingly contrasting statements, reflecting from two interconnected hermeneutical angles: the value perspective and the emotional/experience perspective. This method leads to various possible connections to a phenomenology of (religious) experience. This reflection on values, and the ways they are experienced, not only seeks to enrich moral theology, but adds to secular version of ethics as well. Most of the contributing scholars to this book are part of the Dutch research group “Theological Ethics” and combine different ecclesial backgrounds, philosophical approaches and theological convictions. The dialogue between them has resulted in this collection of essays, which through its variety provides a significant contribution to the conversation about values experience.
