Examples Of Mystical Experience Flashcards
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St Teresa of Avila
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In The Interior Castle she outlines many types of religious experience including mental prayer
2
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Jan Van Ruusbroec
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Flemish mystic
3
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Conversion
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The process of someone turning away from past sinful behaviour and beginning a new life based on faith in God - can be gradual or sudden
4
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St Paul
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A Jew who persecuted christians until a sudden experience of the risen Christ on the road to Damascus - described himself as a new man or a new creation
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John Wesley
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Initially aware that he did not have the same faith in a personal saviour that others had, he had a conversion experience where his heart was warmed and he felt trust in Christ that he had been saved from his sins
