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Religious Experience Flashcards

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Nature of Religious experience (3)

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  1. Visions
  2. Numinous experiences
  3. Mystical experiences
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Define Numinous Experience

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Experiences of the ‘Wholly other’

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St Augustine 3 classified visions

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  1. Corporal
  2. Intellectual
  3. Imaginative
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Define and example

Corporeal Visions

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Empirical, supernatural expeiences, mediated through the physical senses.
Bernadette vision of Mary at Lourdes

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Define and example

Imaginative Visions

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Visions mediated through The minds eye (dreams).
Josephs dream (mary is pregnant)

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Define and example

Intellectual Visions

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A Vision where there is no visual image.
Teresa of ávila who claimed to see jesus.

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Latin

What are Numious experiences also called?

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Sui Generis - Unique or in a class of their own.

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Mysterium tremedum et fascinans defintion

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A tremedous and facisating mystery- part of Ottos description of numious relgious experiences.

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Give the 4 marks of religious experices according to William James

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  1. Passivity
  2. Ineffability
  3. Transciency
  4. Noetic
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Which scholar descibed mystical experiences as non-sensous and non-intellectual?

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Walter Stace

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What are the two types of mystical experiences according to Stace?

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Introvertive and Extrovertive.

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Challenges

Why are religious experiences difficult to prove?

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  1. They are subjective and private.
  2. They are ineffable
  3. Contradictory
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Scientific challenges to RE

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  1. Temperoal lobe epilepsy (TLE)
  2. God helment.
  3. Drugs (LSE)

The scientific conclusion is that religous experiences are generated by

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Swinburnes

What is the principle of Creduality?

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‘If it seems to a subject that “X” is present then probably “x” is presnt.

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What is the the Principle of testimony?

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If reliable witnesses report religious experiences, we should therfore believe them .
it is a skeptics job to show thay religious experiences are false rather than the believers job to show that they are true.

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