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Write your answers to these questions: After beginning your studies at college. have you found that life is more ambiguous and more complex than you had previously thought?
What about your faith, your religious beliefs? In the past year ortwo, have you seen your religious convictions becoming more ambiguous and more complex? Or have those convictionsremained the same, your "bedrock faith," so to speak? Of the two possibilities mentioned, which might be better-and why?
Inhis Phenomenology of Perception "Merleau-Ponty starts with Husserl's notion that we must philosophize from our ownexperience of phenomena, but he adds ... that this experience comes to us through our sensitive, moving, perceptive bodies"(pp. 209-210).
We can paraphrase this and state: we must also theologize from our own experience of phenomena, theexperience that comes to us through our everyday living, our living in sensitive, moving, changing, perceptive bodies. Is this so? True? Accurate? What do you think?