Key Terms Flashcards
Mystical experience?
Experiences of God or of the supernatural which go beyond everyday sense experience.
Conversion experience?
An experience which produces a radical change in someone’s belief system.
Corporate religious experience?
Religious experiences which happen to a group of people “as a body”.
Numinous experience?
An indescribable experience which invokes feelings of awe, worship and fascination.
Principle of credulity?
Swinburne’s principle that we should usually believe what our senses tell us we’re perceiving.
Principle of testimony?
Swinburne’s principle that we should usually trust that other people are telling us the truth.
Naturalistic explanation?
An explanation referring to natural rather than supernatural causes.
Neurophysiology?
An area of science which studies the brain and the nervous system.
