The Feeling of Transcendence, an Experience of God?

“This book comes at the right time for the many contemporary people who, living through an era of social upheaval, religious scandal, and suffering on a global scale, are asking ultimate questions and searching for something deeper in life. With this exploration of transcendent experience, Roy points readers to deeper, more mysterious realms of reality and does so as only a person seasoned by lived experience and serious scholarship can do.”


—Patrick Manning, Chair, Department of Pastoral Theology, Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology





“In his thought-provoking and illuminating account of transcendent experiences, theologian Fr. Louis Roy, OP, engages in a careful and penetrating analysis of these phenomena, by considering their basic structure as well as the different ways that people encounter the transcendent, taking into account both secular and theistic perspectives that reject such experiences, as well as those that provide a rationale for acknowledging their real possibility. A valuable resource for students of spirituality.”


—Fr. Michael Mascari, OP, Academic Dean, Aquinas Institute of Theology





“Prof. Roy masterfully engages the notion of transcendent experience through aesthetic, ontological, ethical, and interpersonal experiences. He makes complex ideas clear and concrete.”


—John D. Dadosky, Director, Fraser Centre for Practical Theology