Religious Experiance. Flashcards
What is a vision and what is its nature.
A vision is the ability to see something beyond normal experiences,
in nature they have either sensory a dream based qualities and can often contain and intellectual aspect.
It is a sense experience by external object sounds or figures may appear to the recipient.
What are the three types of visions and what is their significance?
Group visions with the significance of a group experience and therefore overwhelming effect.
Individual visions with the significance of individual benefits and subjective experience.
Religious figures vision such as St Teresa of Avila angel holding a long spear that seemed to pierce her heart.
What is a conversion and what is an example and what is its significance.
A conversion in the religious context of the change of state from one form of Life to another or changing direction.
An example of this is the day of Pentecost when the disciples change direction from hiding to preaching.
It is a dramatic religious experience and as such and pentacles can be collective.
What are the characteristics of a conversion. (4)
Conversion can be gradual or sudden. It does not have to be an instant dateable experience.
A conversion is often volitional or self surrendering meaning that the conversion might involve giving up of personal will.
a conversion can be passive or active meaning either the experience comes upon them somewhat unexpectedly or deliberately seeking it.
Conversions are often transforming in that the conversion involves going transformation creating a new person.
What are some different descriptions of conversions.
A conversion that involves unifying inner self.
A conversion can be a matter of intellectual persuasion where a new system of thought as seen as true.
A conversion can be from New religion to Faith.
A conversion can even be from Faith believing to Faith trusting.
Conversions can be under the headings intellectual or moral.
What are the five points presented by Ed Miller about mysticism and what are they?
- Transcendent - not localised in space or time
- Ineffable - not expressible by language.
- Noetic - conveying illumination and truth.
- Ecstatic - filling the soil with Bliss and Peace.
- Unitive - unifying the soul with reality.
How did an individual achieve Union with God do mystical experience and stages of prayer according Teresa of Avila.
It is not possible for any individual to achieve that Union by themselves but that only through gods Grace could a person move through the various stages.
Often associated with teaching and various stages of prayer she compares this data to the ways which a garden is looked after
observers believe real inside and the mystical experience is found in her final work the interior Castle moving on from analogy of Ward garden she considered the so the better Castle that contains seven suit on mansions.
What were terese of Avila seven Mansions of prayer tooth out let them all as long
Her 7 Mansions of prayer refer to the development of prayer from prayers allowing the individual to become closer to god then having god implant himself and spiritual marriage leading to the highest possible state of prayer in his seventh mansion regarded as mystical marriage.
What is a code from Isaiah 6 depicting a vision?
In the year king uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting on the throne high and lofty.
What is a quote from smart entailing the validity and significance of religious experience?
” we only have to glance at religious history to see the enormous vitality and significance of experience in the formation and development of religions “
What is a quote from Stace explain the importance of a central characteristic in mystical experiences.
” the most important the central characteristic…. is that they involve the apprehension of an ultimate non sensuous with unity in all things ‘
What’s a direct quote from Teresa of Avila about prayer.
” we should desire and engage in prayer not for enjoyment but for the sake of acquiring the strength of service “
What’s a direct quote from Teresa of Avila about prayer.
” we should desire and engage in prayer not for enjoyment but for the sake of acquiring the strength of service “
What are William James’s four characteristics of mystical experience and explain them?
- Ineffability - it defies expression and the new adequate report of it’s contents can be given in words.
- Noetic quality - those who experience them to be also states of knowledge, they give insight and truth unplumbed in discursive intellect.
- Transiency - they cannot be sustained for long except in rare instances at most an hour of two seems to be the limit beyond which this fade into the light of common day.
- Passivity - after the bodily performances etc has set in the mystic feels as if his own will is absent as if grasped by a superior power.
What is the concept of the numinous as proposed by rudolf Otto?
Numinous means supernatural divine power and it set it apart from ethical and moral connotations that holy may also have.
For others the idea that human beings can be in receipt of the numinous is part of the natural inclination of humanity towards the spiritual realm.
he’s not stating that a numerous experience is irrational however implies a lack of sensibility and stability in the experience proved to be in effable.
the numinous experience is the deepest and most fundamental element in all strong and sincerely fell religious emotionthe numinous experience is the deepest and most fundamental element in all strong and sincerely felt religious emotion.
in attempting to describe the profound intensity that is associated with a deeply felt religious experience and illuminate our understanding of the concept of the numinous as an expression of religious awe and power.
