 Revelation as Inner Experience. According to this model, revelation consists in some kind of “privileged interior experience of grace or communion with God” (Dulles 1992: 27). Some proponents claim that the interior experience is “pre-conceptual” and occurs at a depth-level of consciousness that transcends and embraces our ordinary experience of the world (Schleiermacher 1799 [1996: 25–26]; 1830 [1999: 16–17]; Rahner 1978: Ch. V). Others take the relevant experiences to be conceptually structured and more like perceptual experiences (Alston 1991; Pike 1992). The pre-conceptual view encounters epistemological puzzles about how non-conceptual inner occurrences can justify beliefs about God, or how the experiences can be about God in the first place (Proudfoot 1985).