Other Types of RE Flashcards
3 other types of RE’s
- responses to life and the world
- corporate experiences
- revelatory experiences
what are responses to life and the world
- indirect experience
- experient’s understanding of their life and the world around them in enhanced
- come as a result of prayer or communication with God
- God guides them and helps them make sense of their lives and the world
Give an example of corporate experiences
Toronto blessing
Explain corporate experiences and the Toronto blessing
- large number of people seemed to experience God at the same time
- people shook uncontrollably, wept, laughed hysterically, and made unusual sounds like barking of Dogs
Where did the Toronto blessing spread to?
All over the USA, Canada and even the UK
What do some people see the experience of the blessing as
A hallmark of a true christian church
Why have some questioned it validity
- could just be mass hysteria
- and presentation technology
What is a releatory experience?
Revelation is divine self-disclosure
- it is a particular experience were God makes himself known through a vision or a dream
What does the experient acquire in releatory experience
- new knowledge
- such as universal truths about God, the future or a prophecy
What is a propositional revelation
God communicates his divine message to a human being
Example of propositional revelation in the Bible
Moses and the Ten Commandments
What is a non-propositional revelation
through religious experience a person come to a moment of realisation of divine truth
Example of non-propositional revelation
When Buddha gained enlightenment
