religious experience

Question 1

definition

Answer 1

hard to define, since you rev to define religious and experience

• religious-not just theism anymore
• experience- directly perceives- subjective and private

AN EXPERIENCE OF AN EVENT IN WHICH ONE IS AWARE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD

AN EXPERIENCE WHICH HAS RELIGIOUS INSIGHT

Question 2

Caroline Franks Davis on defining religious experience

Answer 2

‘fruitless’

Question 3

6 types of RE - Franks Davis

I Question reading red numbers more

Answer 3

1) interpretive
2) quasi-sensory
3) regenerative
4) mystical
5) revelation
6) NUMINOUS

usually a re will incorporate a number of these characteristics

Question 4

Richard Swinburne on RE

Answer 4

5 types : public and private

Question 5

Public swinburne

Answer 5

1) everyone can see the RE, but interpret it in different ways
2) Healing-clear evidence however different people have different ideas on why it happened

Question 6

private swinburne

Answer 6

1) vision
2) Mystical
3) experiencing god over time (cardinal newman)

Question 7

Keith ward and science

Answer 7

believes that physics suggests that reality may be more complex and multi-dimensional than first thought, therefore definitely a possibility that a supreme mind exists