It seemed to me that the truly sovereign God could not be regarded as absent or superfluous
in ordinary human experience and philosophical reflection, but that every single reality should prove incomprehensible (at least in its depth) without recourse to God, if he actually was the Creator of the world as Barth thought him to be.
A milder assessment is of course open to those who can incorporate Good Friday and Easter into the framework
of ordinary human experience, psychology and language.
Instead, we shall pass from the first to the fifth way, showing in each case how the existence of God can be known with certainty by reflecting
on ordinary human experience.
The term «conscious superject» can be taken to refer to the physiological correlate of a moment
of ordinary human experience, although this does not exhaust its technical meaning.
In
ordinary human experience this region is coextensive with the body or with some aspect of the body.
The word which the apostolic community used and offered to us is the word «resurrection,» hardly a term derived from or consonant with our usual conceptuality or
our ordinary human experience, however rich and varied.
I use the term «conscious occasions» for convenience to refer to
ordinary human experience, An approximate operational definition is «any moment in the life of a person that he or she can subsequently remember.»
Criticism, after all, operates in the realm of the predictable and the probable, of what is plausible according to science and
ordinary human experience.
Worthy of
this ordinary human experience, with all of its joys and suffering.
The director is clearly drawn to palpable,
ordinary human experience, which he presents with understatement and sincerity.