Religious Experience

Question 1

What is a conversion experience e?

Answer 1

When you have an experience that makes you change your views and beliefs

Question 2

What are corporate religious experience ?

Answer 2

A public religious experience that takes place with a group of people

Question 3

What is ineffiability ?

Answer 3

So,eth8ng that is unable to be expressed by words

Question 4

What is a mystical experience ?

Answer 4

Experiencing something beyon this world

Question 5

What is a noetic quality .

Answer 5

Religious experiences low impart knowledge to the people who experience them

Question 6

What is a numinous experience ?

Answer 6

An experience of awe and wonder that is hard to explain

Question 7

What is pragmatism ?

Answer 7

A theory cns be treated as true if it works ok in practice

Question 8

What is the princi0e of credulity ?

Answer 8

We should believe and trust our senses .if you have experienced god , it is rating to believ the god was present

Question 9

What is a principle of testimony “

Answer 9

We should believe what a person says unless we have a reason not too

Question 10

What is transience ?

Answer 10

The experience lasts only a short time

Question 11

What is William James book called that discuses religious 3xperimce ?

Answer 11

The varieties of religious experience

Question 12

What is the purpose of James book ?

Answer 12

He acknowledges the variety of experiences but tries to find some common threads that all significant experiences have in common

Question 13

What does James mean by genuine .

Answer 13

In the sense that the one who experiences in this way is making a honest claim

Question 14

What do we need to discount in order to assess whether we should accept the religious experience ?

Answer 14

The possibility of delusion or the presence of mind altering substances

Question 15

What does James mean by over beliefs ?

Answer 15

What we see therefore from the outside is the effects of what James descibes as o over beliefs

Question 16

How does James respond to criticism about over beliefs ?

Answer 16

To argue that there is a valuable distinction between the experience in itself and the way it is experienced

Question 17

What happened to Julian of Norwich ?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What happened to Teresa of Avila ?

Answer 18

A spear , it’s golden tip on fire , piercing her side and leaving her with an immense feeling of elation and love

Question 19

What are the four types of religious experience +

Answer 19

Numinous
Visions and voices
Corporate
Conversion

Question 20

What does friedrich schleiermarcher say in support of Otto ?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What does Martin Buber say in opposition of Otto ?

Answer 21

To Buber there are two kinds of relationships “I -it” , impersonal , clinical removed m

Question 22

What happened to St Paul vision ?

Answer 22

On the way to Damascus to persecute Christian’s , Paul saw Jesus in a vision
He converted to Christianity and hacemos an influential missionary

Question 23

What phrase does Otto use to describe numinous experiences ?