RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

Question 1

Mystical Experience

Answer 1

Experiences of God/supernatural which go beyond everyday sense experience

Question 2

Principle of Credibility

Answer 2

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

Question 2

Conversion Experience

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Corporate Religious Experience

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Numinous Experience

Answer 4

An indescribable experience which invoke feelings of awe, worship and fascination

Question 5

Principle of Testimony

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Naturalistic Explanation

Answer 6

An explanation referring to natural rather than supernatural causes

Question 7

Neurophysiology

Answer 7

An area of science which studies the brain and nervous system