Religious Experience Flashcards
What is a conversion experience e?
When you have an experience that makes you change your views and beliefs
What are corporate religious experience ?
A public religious experience that takes place with a group of people
What is ineffiability ?
So,eth8ng that is unable to be expressed by words
What is a mystical experience ?
Experiencing something beyon this world
What is a noetic quality .
Religious experiences low impart knowledge to the people who experience them
What is a numinous experience ?
An experience of awe and wonder that is hard to explain
What is pragmatism ?
A theory cns be treated as true if it works ok in practice
What is the princi0e of credulity ?
We should believe and trust our senses .if you have experienced god , it is rating to believ the god was present
What is a principle of testimony “
We should believe what a person says unless we have a reason not too
What is transience ?
The experience lasts only a short time
What is William James book called that discuses religious 3xperimce ?
The varieties of religious experience
What is the purpose of James book ?
He acknowledges the variety of experiences but tries to find some common threads that all significant experiences have in common
What does James mean by genuine .
In the sense that the one who experiences in this way is making a honest claim
What do we need to discount in order to assess whether we should accept the religious experience ?
The possibility of delusion or the presence of mind altering substances
What does James mean by over beliefs ?
What we see therefore from the outside is the effects of what James descibes as o over beliefs
How does James respond to criticism about over beliefs ?
To argue that there is a valuable distinction between the experience in itself and the way it is experienced
What happened to Julian of Norwich ?
Julián wrote revelations of divine love after a series of visions when she was close to death
Julian saw a version of Christ bleeding in front of her
What happened to Teresa of Avila ?
A spear , it’s golden tip on fire , piercing her side and leaving her with an immense feeling of elation and love
What are the four types of religious experience +
Numinous
Visions and voices
Corporate
Conversion
What does friedrich schleiermarcher say in support of Otto ?
Religious experiences are an emotional response deeper than reason and we use it to give us logical reasons for a god existing
A source of power beyond the world is the awareness it gives us
What does Martin Buber say in opposition of Otto ?
To Buber there are two kinds of relationships “I -it” , impersonal , clinical removed m
What happened to St Paul vision ?
On the way to Damascus to persecute Christian’s , Paul saw Jesus in a vision
He converted to Christianity and hacemos an influential missionary
What phrase does Otto use to describe numinous experiences ?
