Religious experience Flashcards
Give a Biblical quote on Vision experience.
“I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.” (Isaiah 6:1-4)
Give a quote from Teresa of Avila on vision experience.
“So far down in the depths of the soul does this contact take place, so clearly do the words spoken by the Lord seem to be heard with the soul’s own faculty of hearing.”
Give a Bible quote on conversion experience.
“As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone round him from heaven. The he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?”” (Acts 9)
Give a quote on conversion experience by John Wesley.
“I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, and Christ alone, for salvation.”
Give a quote on mysticism from Willaim B. Yeats.
“Mysticism… ever will be one of the greatest powers of the world.”
Give a quote from Teresa of Avila on prayer.
“Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.”
Give a quote from William James on understanding religious experience.
“One must have been in love one’s self to understand a lover’s state of mind.”
Give a quote on the intimate nature of mysticism from Willaim James.
“I have on a nuymber of occassions felt that I had enjoyed a period of intimate communion with the divine. These meetings came unasked and unexpected.”
Give a description of the numinous by Rudolf Otto.
“… we come upon something inherently ‘wholly other’, whose kind and character are incommensurable with our own.”
Give an explanation of numinous epxperience from Rudolf Otto.
“The tremendum, the daunting and repelling moment of the numinous…”
Give a description of the action of the numinous by Rudolf Otto.
“The mysterium is the wholly-other, an object eluding all understanding. It fills the mind with ‘wonder and astonishment’.”
Give a criticism of the verifiability of religious experience from Caroline Franks Davis.
“Religious experiences are not the sort of thing which can easily be produced for observation in a controlled setting.”
Give a quote from Caroline Franks Davis on the questionable nature of proving religious experience.
"”One must not assumesome undetected (and probably undetectable) pathology in an otherwise healthy individual.”
Give a quote from Franks Davis on the principles of credulity and testimony.
“These principles of credulity and testimony are ultimate principles of rationality which ally to all types of perceptual experience”
Give a Bible quote on the influence of religious experience from the New Testament.
“God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph.” (Luke 1:26).
Give a Bible quote on the influence of religious experience from the Old Testament.
“The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him… “This is my covenant with you, you will be the father of a multitude of nations.”” (Genesis 17: 1-5).
Give a quote from Durkheim on the personal value of religious experience.
“The believer who has communicated with his god… is a man who is stronger. He feels within himself more force, either to endure the trials of existence, or to conquer them.”
Give a quote on the value of religious experience from William James.
“The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer… charity, devotion, trust, patience, and bravery.”
Give Aquinas’ definition of miracle.
“Things that are done occasionally by divine power outside of the usual established order of events are commonly called miracles.”
Give a quote on Aquinas’ three ranks of miracles.
“Miracles of the highest rank are those in which something is done by God that nature can never do.”
Give Hume’s definition of miracle.
“Nothing is esteemed a miracle if it ever happens in the common course of nature… There must therefore be a uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise that miraculous event would not merit that appellation.”
Give Holland’s defintion of miracle.
“A remarkable and beneficial coincidence that is interpreted in a religious fashion… an event that in certain circumstances has a human significance.”
Give Swinburne’s definition of miracle.
“If a god intervened in the natural order to make a feather land here rather than there… These events would not naturally be described as miracles.”
Give an example of miracle in Exodus.
“Then Moses held out his arm over the sea and the Lord drove back the sea with a strong east wind all that night, and turned the sea to dry ground. The waters were split…” (Exodus 14)
