Spiritual Senses

Is it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the ''pure in heart'' will ''see God''? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria, Bonaventure, Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar have all approached these questions in distinctive ways by appealing to the concept of the ''spiritual senses''. In focusing on the Christian tr...