Chapter 5 Flashcards
What are the three sections of Chapter 5?
- The Nature of Religious Experience
- Mystical Experience
- Challenges to objectivity and authenticity
What are the key scholars of The Nature of Religious Experience?
- Teresa of Avila
- Julian of Norwich
- St Paul
What are the types of visions?
- sensory visions / corporeal visions
- imaginative visions
- intellectual visions
- visions in dreams - Joseph in Matthew
What are the two types of conversion experiences (two categories)?
- individual conversion experiences
- communal conversion experiences
- passive conversion
- active conversion
What are the features of mysticism?
- transcendent
- ecstatic
- unitive religious experience
What are the types of prayer?
- prayer of worship and thanksgiving
- prayer of petition
- prayer of confession and repentance
- communal
- individual
- spontaneous
- led by minister
What are St Teresa of Avila’s 4 stages of prayer?
- meditation
- prayer of quiet
- union
- rapture
What is St. Teresa of Avila’s text on prayer?
The Interior Castle
Who are the key scholars for Mystical Experience?
- William James
- Rudolf Otto
What are William James four characteristics of religious experience?
- ineffability - beyond expression
- noetic - new understanding
- transiency - not long or repeatable
- passivity - controlled by something outside the self
What are Rudolph Otto’s characteristics of the numinous?
- category beyond perfection and of its own kind
- creature-consciousness
- wholly other
- evokes mix of dread and love
What are the three parts of Mysterium Tremendum and their meaning?
Mysterium: sense of strangeness and otherness
Tremendum: magnitude of God’s presence
Fascinans: mixture of dread, awe, and fascination
