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03 Religious Experience - A The Nature Of Religious Experience Flashcards

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What do religious experiences provide empirical evidence for?

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The existence of God.

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What is the definition of a vision?

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A vision is something seen other than by ordinary. I.e. a supernatural or prophetic sight experienced whilst awake or during sleep. They convey a message or revelation of some form.

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What are the 3 types of visions?

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•Sensory
•intellectual
•dreams

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What do sensory visions involve?

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Sense experience
eg objects, sounds, figures

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What amount of people do sensory visions affect?

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They can be communal or individual.

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What do intellectual visions bring?

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•messages of inspiration.
•instructions
•insight.

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What types of visions can include warnings?

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All types of visions.

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Who do dreams effect? (Visions)

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Individuals

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What can dreams (visions) include?

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Warnings or messages.

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What are sensory visions?

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Visions that involve sense experience. They may be communal or individual.

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What are intellectual vision?

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Visions that bring about messages of inspiration or instructions or insight.

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What are dreams (visions)?

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Individual visions and can include warnings or messages.

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Give an example of a sensory vision.

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In Lourdes Bernadette was instructed by Mary to dig a hole and healing water would appear.

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Give an example of a dream (vision).

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The 3 magi were warned in a dream not to return to Herod.

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Give an example of a group vision.

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The angel of mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the battle of monster at the outset of World War I.

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What is religious conversion?

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The adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.

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What amount of people do conversion happen to?

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They are mainly individual but can also be communal

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Who suggested a number of features of conversion?

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William James

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What features of conversion did William James suggest?

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•gradual or sudden
•volitional or self surrendering
•passive or active
•transforming

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Explain volitional conversion

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Giving up of personal will.

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Explain self-surrendering conversion

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Some resistance and internal battle.

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Explain passive conversion.

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The experience happens to an individual unexpectedly.

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Explain active conversion.

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Someone actively seeks an experience.

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Explain transforming conversion.

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The person is changed.

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What does St Paul describe transforming conversion as?
"A new creation"
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What are the 4 types of conversion?
•from one faith to another •from mind to heart •intellectual •moral
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Who made a conversion from mind to heart?
-Brian Welsh -John Wesley
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Who made an intellectual conversion?
C.S. Lewis
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Who made a moral conversion?
Augustine.
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Give an example of conversion from one faith to another.
St Paul used to persecute Christians but he has a dramatic conversion experience on the road to Damascus and became christianitys most famous writer and missionary.
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Give an example of conversion from mind to heart.
John Wesley was aware that he did not have personal faith in Jesus. However he had a conversion experience in which he felt his heart warm, "I trusted Christ alone for my salvation."
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Give an example for an intellectual conversion.
C. S. Lewis the author of chronicles of narnia spent time talking to Tolkien about Christianity and became convinced that Jesus was the son of God.
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Give an example of a moral conversion.
St Augustine lived a wayward life but read St Paul's letter to the Romans which led him to change his life.
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Give an example of a communal conversion.
The pentacost.
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What is mysticism often described as?
A direct encounter with the divine.
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How does Ed Miller define mysticism?
"The pursuit of a transcendent, unitive experience with the absolute reality."
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What are Ed Millers 5 characteristics of a mystical experience?
•unitive •noetic •ineffable •transcendent •ecstatic
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What is the acronym for Ed Miller's five characteristics of a mystical experience?
UNITE
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Explain unitive. *Ed Miller's five characteristics of a mystical experience.*
The individual feels that they are united with reality (all is one).
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Explain noetic. *Ed Miller's five characteristics of a mystical experience.*
The experience provides the individual with knowledge or truth.
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Explain ineffable. *Ed Miller's five characteristics of a mystical experience.*
The experience cannot be described in ordinary language.
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Explain trancendent. *Ed Miller's five characteristics of a mystical experience.*
The experience seems beyond time and space.
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Explain ecstatic. *Ed Miller's five characteristics of a mystical experience.*
The individual experiences deep bliss and peace.
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What do mystics often speak of?
A mystical ascent.
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What is a mystical ascent?
Steps begin in the earthly, mundane world but with regular practice and divine assistance the individual can trancend their own reality to gain unity with the ultimate reality.
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What is the mystical ascent often described as metaphorically?
A journey from darkness to light.
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Explain transcendent mysticism.
These take the individual beyond normal everyday experience. Moving from the physical world to the mystical world. Accompanied by other experiences like ecstacy and peace.
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Give an example of transcendent mysticism.
Sufism
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Explain ecstatic mysticism.
This is an intense experience. It involves intenslu focusing on something ( God) and suspension of other sense activity. May appear in a trance. Often results in intense happiness and joy.
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Give an example of ecstatic mysticism.
Teresa of Avila describes ecstasy in her writings.
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Explain unitive mysticism.
For theists it involves becoming united with God. For Buddhists who don't believe in God it refers to loss of self and unity with all that is.
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Who came up with the types and stages of prayer?
Teresa of Avila.
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Who is Teresa of Avila?
A Spanish, catholic mystic. Became a carmalite nun at the age of 20.
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What are Teresa of Avilas writings a key source of?
Understanding on prayer.
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What were Teresa of Avilas 2 analogys?
Garden and interior castle.
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What do Teresaof Avilas 2 analogy describe?
The various stages which the soul goes through to reach union with God.
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Explain the 1st stage in Teresa of Avilas garden analogy.
1. By taking water from a well, which costs us great labour - in this stage prayer is difficult and requires our labour.
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Explain the 2nd stage in Teresa of Avilas garden analogy.
2. By water-wheel and buckets, when the water is drawn by a windlass. - this stage is easier than the first.
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Explain the 3rd stage in Teresa of Avilas garden analogy.
3. By a stream or brook, which waters the ground much better, for it saturated the ground much better, and there is less need to water it often, so that the gardeners labour is much less - prayer is becoming easy.
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Explain the 4th stage in Teresa of Avilas garden analogy.
4. By heavy rain, when the Lord waters it with no labour of ours. - this illustrates the feature of passitivity.
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What is the analogy of the interior castle?
The soul is likened to a castle consisting on seven mansions. Each mansion brings the individual closer to union with God.
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What are mansions?
Rooms.
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What are the first 3 mansions in the interior castle?
Stages of prayer.
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What are the last 4 mansions in the interior castle?
Stages of mysticism.
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What is stage 4 of the interior castle? Explain.
Prayer of quiet. A state where the human is completely captivated by God's love. The individual is now operating on the mystical level. They now experience peace and spiritual delight. Sometimes so intense that you can appear faint or appear semi-comatose: st teresa referred to as 'sleep of the faculties'.
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What is stage 5 of the interior castle? Explain.
Prayer of simple union. God implants himself in the interior of the soul in such a way, that when it returns to itself, it cannot possibly be in any doubt that God has been it it and it has been in God.
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What is stage 6 of the interior castle? Explain.
Spiritual marriage. The main experiences associated with this stage include rapture, feelings of painful longing, spiritual ecstasy and visions. The over-riding characterstic is the sense of wanting to be able to spend every possible moment alone with the divine 'spouse' and the complete rejection of all things that can get in the way of such moments.
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What is stage 7 of the interior castle? Explain.
Mystical marriage. It is the stage where complete unity with the divine is felt, to the extent where an intimate and perspective awareness, knowledge and understanding of the person of the divine are intuitively felt.

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