Religious experience

Question 1

What is Mystical experience

Answer 1

Experiences of God or of the supernatural which go beyond everyday sense experience

Question 2

Conversion experience means what

Answer 2

An experience which produces a radical change in someone’s belief system

Question 3

What is a corporate religious experience

Answer 3

Religious experiences which happen to a group of people as a ‘body’

Question 4

What is a numinous experience

Answer 4

An indescribable experience which invokes feeling of awe, worship and fascination

Question 5

Principle of credulity is what

Answer 5

Swinburne’s principle that we should usually believe what our senses tell us we are perceiving

Question 6

Principle of testimony has what definition

Answer 6

Swinburne principle that we should usually trust that other people are telling the truth

Question 7

Naturalistic explanation

Answer 7

An explanation referring to natural rather than supernatural causes

Question 8

Neurophysiology is what

Answer 8

an area of science which studies the brain and the nervous system

Question 9

What is Thomas hobbes interpretation

Answer 9

What is difference between a man saying that Gd spoke to him in a dream, and a man dreaming that God has spoken to him

Question 10

What is Bertrand Russell ops

Answer 10

Suggested that some people drink to much and see snakes, while others fast too much and see God.

Question 11

what is Wittgenstein interpretation

Answer 11

Developed the idea that we all see things in a particular way, if you think of the picture, it just depends on which way we look at it

Question 12

what is Vincent Brummer interpretations

Answer 12

Pointed out that the problem with the duck/rabbit picture is that what is truly is, is a line drawing

Question 13

What is Vincent Brummer problem with religious experience

Answer 13

Its when people start to claim that they have interpreted the event correctly, and assert truth when they attach a religious element to it. Should it be left down to a matter of interpretation?

Question 14

How is times we interpreting things wrong be a problem of interpretation

Answer 14

People can hear and see things that aren’t there. (E.G we hear our names be shouted, hearing the door knock, something wasn’t there)

Question 15

how can mystical experience be a problem for interpretation

Answer 15

People use Ouija boards

Question 16

how can conversion experience be a problem for interpretation

Answer 16

A man was on his own went blind and turned Christian because he thought God blinded him

Question 17

How can numinous experience a problem of interpretation

Answer 17

People visit lona will feel a sense of awe and remote

Question 18

How can corporate experience cause a problem for interpretation

Answer 18

Cult believing the world was going to end and so they all poisoned themselves and all died

Question 19

What type of experience is Lourders ST Bernadette

Answer 19

Mystical

Question 20

Give a brief summary of what ST Bernadette saw at Lourdes

Answer 20

Saw a vision of the virgin Mary at the grotto. It angered her parents when she said this and said that she was craxy and banned her from going again. One of the times she went back Virgin mary told her to break a certain part and water will come out. It was cared for and became clear. This time the village saw the water change and someone got healed by the water. The church says miracles can still happen today

Question 21

How many times is St Bernadette go back to the grotto after she was banned

Answer 21

17

Question 22

What experience did it become when the town saw the water change in Lourdes

Answer 22

A corporate

Question 23

How can we test Lourdes

Answer 23

We can have more medical test
Check multiple people with the same disease
will she fall ill again

Question 24

What experience did Ian have

Answer 24

A numinous experience

Question 25

Explain Ian experience

Answer 25

He had alot of tumours which caused him to have 2 day Scherzer and then started to believe every object had conscience and everything was bond together with one bounding everlasting love.

Question 26

What is Ian opinions on other people

Answer 26

That he doesnt care what people think because it has changed him

Question 27

What is Schleiermacher opinion on what religion is based on

Answer 27

Personal experience and that experience is the heart of religion.

Question 28

Who has the consciousness of the divine according to Schleiermacher

Answer 28

Everyone

Question 29

What does Schleiermacher mean when he says that religious experience is ‘self-authenticating’.

Answer 29

there is no need for testing

Question 30

What did Schleiermacher called religion

Answer 30

‘A sense and taste for infinite’ as well as ‘the feeling of absolute dependence’
Although feelings and experience were all-important he still thought Christianity wasn’t the only religion but the highest