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religious experience Flashcards

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What are the 3 types of religious experiences?

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Corporeal, Imaginative + Intellectual

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What is a corporeal vision?

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Empirical; supernatural experiences mediated through physical senses
Visionary sees the figure in the same way someone would see a chair

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What’s an example of a corporeal vision?

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18 visions of Mary that Bernadette of Lourdes saw
Mary identified herself as the ‘Immaculate Conception’

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What’s an imaginative vision?

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Visions mediated through the ‘minds eye’ not physical sight
Often dreams

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What’s an example of an imaginative vision?

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Josephs dream where he was told Mary was preg. through power of Holy Spirit

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What’s an intellectual vision?

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No image, but the subject claims to ‘see’ things as they rlly are
Mystical visions; hard to understand but they enlighten the soul

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What’s an example of an intellectual vision?

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Teresa of Avila - a mystic who saw “nothing with the eyes of the body, nothing with the eyes of the soul” but saw Jesus as he rlly was

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What’s a numinous experience?

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Exp. thats the basis of all gen. religion
Non rational + unique
Sense of the wholly other

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What is meant by the term ‘holy’?

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‘Other than’ ‘Separate from’
Attempt to describe the sense some ppl have of a reality totally beyond their exp. of themselves

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What is meant by mysterium?

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Far removed from humanity

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What is meant by tremendum?

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Fearsome experience of God’s overwhelming energy

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What is meant by fascinans?

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Nature of the experience creates a desire for a relationship w the Being

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What does Mysterium tremendum et fascinans mean?

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Fearful + attractive mystery

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What did William James believe about religion?

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He was sympathetic to it but wasn’t a part of an organised religion

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What did William James believe organised religion grew from?

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People comparing their religious experiences

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What did William James believe the true purpose of humanist is?

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Union w the higher universe that gives this world its significance

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What is William James’ 4 criteria for assessing the genuine nature of a mystical experience?

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Ineffability, Noetic quality, Transiency, Passivity

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What is meant by ineffability?

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Private experience that makes sense only to other mystics

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What is noetic quality?

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The encounter gives a genuine insight into truth

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What is transiency?

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The experience is usually short + it becomes difficult to reproduce the mem. after time

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What is passivity?

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The experience controls the mystic

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What does William James say about the wide range of mystical experience?

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Moving power of music
Deja vu
Drug-induced states where ‘depth beyond depth of truth’ is revealed

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What did Walter Stace think about Gods existence?

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There’s little point in attempting to prove God’s existence
He’s either a mystery or nothing

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What 2 types of mystical experiences did Walter Stace identify?

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Introvertive + extrovertive

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What is an introvertive experience?

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Sense experience = suppressed
No awareness of world
No intellectual function

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What is an extrovertive experience?

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Normal objects are seen w the physical senses but they’re transfigured so the non-sensuous unity shines through

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What did Sigmund Freud say about religion?

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It’s ‘wish fulfilment’
God helps control fear of the unknown
Religious experiences are hallucinations caused by out need to have control

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What is hinted at in the New Testament?

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St Paul hints at being affected by a condition called a ‘thorn in the flesh’ but it sounds like temporal lobe epilepsy

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What are symptoms of TLE?

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Temporary blindness, seeing light, having visions, hearing voices

30
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What does science of neurotheology show?

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Religious experiences are produced by electrical stimulation of temporal lobes in the brain

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What is said about the God Helmet?

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Magnetic coils stimulate temporal lobes
Results include experience of mystical states, visions of God etc

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What is said about drugs + religious experience?

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R.E. can be caused by drugs
‘Entheogens’ - generating the divine within (LSD, mescaline etc)

33
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What can a religious believer respond w about TLE?

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If God wants ppl to have religious experiences, they have to be processed by the brain
An area in the brain needs to be resp.

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What does Swinburne’s principle of credulity (POC) say?

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How things seem to be, is the way things really are
Believability of a persons experience

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What does Swinburne’s principle of testimony (POT) say?

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Where there’s no spec. consideration, we should believe what ppl tell
Reliability of what ppl claim

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What are the 4 special considerations of the principle of credulity?

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Reliability of the claim, truth of the claim, difficulty showing God was present + what is claimed can be accounted for in other ways

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What is the meaning of the special consideration: reliability of the claim? What principle does this apply to?

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If someone describes a religious experience but has been known to lie in the past then you have good reason to doubt it (POC)

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What is the meaning of the special consideration: truth of the claim? Which principle does this apply?

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Reasonability of the claim (POC)

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What is meant by the special consideration: difficulty showing God was present? Which principle does this apply to?

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Proof of God is difficult (POC)

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What is meant by the special consideration: what is claimed can be accounted for in other ways? Which principle does this apply to?

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Accounted for w medical explanations such as TLE (POC)

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What is Swinburne’s rejection of the 1st special consideration in POC?

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It can’t be shown that all claims are unreliable just bc someone’s lied in the past

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What is Swinburne’s rejection of the 2nd special consideration in POC?

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It can’t be shown that all claims are untrue just bc its unlikely/unreasonable

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What is Swinburne’s rejection of the 3rd special consideration in POC?

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God is supposedly everywhere; so why would we need to prove he was there

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What is Swinburne’s rejection of the 4th special consideration in POC?

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God arguably may cause medical conditions that can be used as explanations

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What is Swinburne’s 1st conclusion in POT?

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Someone who’s had a religious experience of what seems to be God has by POC good reason for believing

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What is Swinburne’s 2nd conclusion in POT?

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The testimony of others who report similar experiences supports claims

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What is Swinburne’s 3rd conclusion in POT?

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W/o R.E. the prob. of the existence of God would be 50/50; adding testimony of R.E. makes it greater than 50/50

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