Religious Experieces Flashcards
Characteristics of religious experience
William james
Swinburne’s case
Response to swinburne’s case
Psychological explination
Challenges to psychological explination
Physiological explination
Challenges to physiological explination
- physial dimention doesn’t mean it should be rejected
Corperate religious experiences
Challenges to corporate religious experience
Conversion - starbuck
Arguments on conversion
James - conversion
Teresa of avila
Happold’s conclusion on mysticism
Otto on numinous experience
Are they natural or God?
Validity of religious experience testimony
Mystical experiences are reliable
Mystical expereinces are not reliable
They are evidence for God
They are not evidence for God
Psychological can explain
Psychological can’t explain
Phsyiolocigal strengths
Phsyiological weaknesses
Conversion is the most convincing
Conversion is not the most convincing
For corporate
For individual