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Religious Experience Flashcards

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Define numen

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Something that is ‘wholly other’ than the natural world

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2
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Define conversion

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The changing from one set of beliefs to another

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Define prayer

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Inward communication with the divine

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Define objective

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External to the mind, actually existing

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Define subjective

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Having its source within the mind

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What is a religious experience?

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A religious experience is an encounter of the divine. It is a non-empirical occurrence that brings with it an awareness of something beyond ourselves.

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What is an awareness experience?

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Seeing the work of God when looking at the natural world

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What is a quasi-sensory experience?

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Having a vision or other inner experience of God

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What is a numinous experience?

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Encountering the holiness of God

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What is a regenerative experience?

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A conversion experience

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What is an interpretive experience?

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Having prayers answered

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What is a mystical experience?

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A sense of the ultimate reality

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What is a revelatory experience?

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Recieving enlightenment and knowledge, perhaps through a revelation from God

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What is a corporate experience?

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When a large number of people share the same experience

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What did Ninian Smart say about religious experience?

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‘A religious experience involves some kind of ‘perception’ of the invisible world, or a perception that some visible person or thing is a manifestation of the invisible world’

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16
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What does Paul Tillich believe?

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That a religious experience is a feeling of ‘ultimate concern’, a feeling that demands a decisive decision from the one receiving it. He describes it as an encounter followed by a special understanding of its religious experience.

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What did William James say about Religious Experience?

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“God was present, though invisible; he fell under not one of my senses, yet my consciousness perceived him”

18
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What common emotions did William James observe that were directed at the divine?

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Notably happiness, fear and wonder

19
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What does mysticism mean?

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The experience of having apprehended an ultimate reality

20
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What does Richard Dawkins believe?

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He believes that religious experiences are merely expressions of a person’s psychological needs.
“The argument from personal experience is the one that is the most convincing to those who claim to have had one. But it is the least convincing to anyone else, especially anyone knowledgeable about psychology”

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What are the types of religious experience?

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  • The dramatic or conversion event
  • Responses to life and the world
  • Revelatory experiences
  • Near-death experiences
  • Mystical experiences
  • Corporate experiences
22
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What is a propositional revelation?

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God communicates his divine message to a human being, for example Moses receiving the Ten Commandments or Muhammed receiving the Qur’an

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What is a non-propositional revelation?

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It is through religious experience, a person comes to a moment of ‘realisation’ of divine, for instance when the Buddha gained enlightenment

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What is a mystical experience?

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It is an experience in which a person experiences the ultimate reality, which brings with it a sense of unity with the divine, separateness from the divine and dependence on the divine.

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Define ineffability

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A state of feeling that defies description

26
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Define noetic quality

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Revelations of universal and eternal truths

27
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Define transiency

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A brief but profoundly important experience

28
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Define passivity

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A feeling of being taken over by a superior authority

29
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What are the two types of mysticism?

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Theistic mysticism

Monistic mysticism

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Define theistic mysticism

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Involves the awareness of God

31
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Define monistic mysticism

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Awareness of the soul, self and conscience

32
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What are William James’ four characteristics

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Ineffability
Noetic quality
Transiency
Passivity

33
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Give an example of a corporate experience

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The Toronto blessing.
Originated at the airport vineyard church in Toronto. People shook uncontrollably, wept, laughed hysterically and made unusual sounds like the barking of dogs.

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What is the cumulative argument?

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It is based on the view that if one takes all the different arguments about religious experience together, then they are more convincing than one argument alone.

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What are the principles of testimony and credulity?

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Swinburne claims that in general, people tell the truth and that we cannot realistically work on the basis of always doubting their accounts of religious experiences. So unless we have evidence on the contrary, we should believe them.

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