Editing Experiential knowledge (section)

==Religion==
[[Zen]] emphasises the importance of the experiential element in religious experience,<ref>Dadid K. Reynolds, ''The Quiet Therapies'' (1982) p. 95</ref> as opposed to what it sees as the trap of conceptualization:<ref>C. Cheng-Chi, ''The Practice of Zen'' (1951) p. 71</ref> as [[D. T. Suzuki]] put it, "fire. Mere talking of it will not make the mouth burn".<ref>Quoted in Reynolds, p. 95</ref>

Experiential knowledge has also been used in the [[philosophy of religion]] as an argument against God's [[omniscience]], questioning whether God could genuinely know everything, since he (supposedly) cannot know what it is like to [[sin]].<ref>[http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/arguments-for-atheism/problems-with-divine-omniscience/experiential-knowledge/ experiential knowledge]</ref> Commenting on the distinction between experiential knowledge and [[propositional knowledge]], analytic philosopher and theologian [[William Lane Craig]] has stated in an interview<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.closertotruth.com/episodes/god-all-knowing|title=Is God All Knowing? &#124; Closer to Truth}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfhIkiT3g8A|title = Is God All Knowing? (William Lane Craig)|website = [[YouTube]]}}</ref> with [[Robert Lawrence Kuhn]] for the [[PBS]] series ''[[Closer to Truth]]'' that because experiential knowledge is appropriate to the [[mind]] which does the knowing, in order for omniscience to be a cognitive perfection God's omniscience must entail God know only and all propositional truths and have only appropriate experiential knowledge.