RE quick quiz Flashcards
what are William James’ characteristics of RE? (4)
1) Passivity: happening to you
2) Ineffability: unable to describe or explain
3) Noetic quality: sense of revelation
4) Transiency: state of lasting for a short time
Passivity
happening to you
Ineffability
unable to describe or explain
Noetic quality
sense of revelation
Transiency
state of lasting for a short time
Mystical RE
exp of divine which is beyond usual sense exps
happening to you - what characteristic?
Passivity
sense of lasting for a short time - what characteristic?
Transiency
Conversion RE
changing your life by converting to another belief system
inability to describe or explain the exp
Ineffability
sense of revelation - what characteristic?
noetic quality
exp of divine which is beyond usual sense exps - what type of RE?
mystical RE
what is a vision?
the exp of seeing a religious figure
Numinous RE
the sense of ‘awe and wonder’ which Otto describes
changing your life by converting to another belief system - what type of RE?
conversion
define empirical
knowledge obtained through the 5 senses and worldly observation
what is the type of RE that Otto describes as the sense of ‘awe and wonder’?
Numinous RE
objective
un-opinionated and based on facts
subjective
considering opinions and open for interpretation
Naturalistic explanation
explanation referring to natural rather than supernatural causes eg scientific explanation
corporate RE
RE that happen to a group of ppl as a ‘body’
what is an explanation referring to natural rather than supernatural causes eg scientific explanation?
naturalistic explanation
2 Christian examples of Corporate RC?
- Toronto Blessing
- The Story of Pentecost
which C from Bible experienced a conversion RE?
St Paul - before was named Saul
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
neurological disorder which causes unprovoked seizures
what drug can stimulate mystical exps?
LSD
what is one unusual side effect of TLB?
religious hallucinations
what are the 2 Principles that Swinburne set out?
- P.O.Testimony
- P.O.Credulity
what sort of philosophical arg is RE arg?
inductive
P.O.Testimony
should usually trust what others are telling truth
P.O.Credulity
should usually believe what our senses tell us what we are perceiving
what is the principle that says that should usually believe what our senses tell us what we are perceiving ?
P.O.Credulity
what is the principle that says that we should usually believe what our senses tell us what we are perceiving ?
P.O.Testimony
who defined mystical exps into categories of ‘love and union’ and ‘knowledge and understanding’?
Happold
two categories that Happold defined mystical exps
1) love and union
2) knowledge and understanding
what type of exp did Happold split into two categories of ‘love and union’ and ‘knowledge and understanding’?
mystical
Schleiermacher’s view on RE? (2)
- self authentciating
- core of R beliefs
which scientist devised the ‘God Helmet’?
Persinger
what does the God Helmet do?
artificially triggers RE by stimulating the temporal lobes
what did Newburg find?
he looked at the brain during meditation and prayer and found that at the peak of meditation and prayer, there is movement of blood from the parietal lobe which controls your sense of time and place which could explain the feeling of ‘losing yourself’
Anthony Flew’s criticism of Swinburne’s cumulative approach
he compared S’s arg to ‘ten leaky buckets’ - this is him saying that by putting flawed args together doesn’t make the overall arg stronger because the foundations are still flawed and weak
what device artificially triggers RE by stimulating the temporal lobes?
God’s Helmet
Explain James’ view on whether RE can be used to prove God exists (3)
- valid for that person, not for others
- perhaps proves existence of something greater than us
- pragmatic app: change for the better “….permanently patient heart…”
