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Religious Experience Flashcards

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Genesis 12 tells us what?

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The call of Abram to become the ‘Father of many nations’

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What type of religious experience does Abraham have?

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Revelation

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What has been the impact of the Ten Commandments to modern Jews?

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They still follow them today

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What was Moses’s main religious experience?

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The Burning Bush

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Why are Abraham’s revelations so important to Judaism?

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It starts the great journey through the Old Testament, which is so important to Jews even today

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What are the two different types of religious experience according to Swinburne?

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Public and Private

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What book did Swinburne write?

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The Existence of God

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What were Swinburne’s two public experiences?

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An impressive natural sight

More than one person experiencing the same sight

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Explain what is an impressive natural sight?

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We can all see the same thing, but different people will be moved in different ways

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Name two examples of more than one person experiencing the same sight

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Resurrection appearance

Visions of Fatima

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What were Swinburne’s three private experiences?

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An experience which can be described
An experience that cannot be easily put into words
An awareness of the presence of God in his/her life

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What is an experience which can be described?

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A vision

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What is an experience which cannot be easily be put into words?

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A Mystical Experience

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How does one see an individual’s awareness of the presence of God in his/her life?

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Looking back over one’s life and seeing how God has acted

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What acronym can be used to described William James’s analysis of mysticism?

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PINT

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What does PINT stand for?

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Passivity
Ineffability
Noetic Quality
Transiency

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What is passivity?

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The mystic has no control over the experience

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How does James describe passivity?

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‘As if he were grasped and held by a superior power.’

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What is Ineffability?

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The experience ‘defies expression’ and cannot be imparted to others

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What is noetic quality?

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Mystical states seem also to be states of knowledge

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How does James describe the Noetic Quality of mysticism?

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‘They are states of insight’

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What is Transiency?

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‘Mystical states cannot be sustained for long’

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What does James examine?

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Mysticism

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How does James define Mysticism?

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‘One may say truly, I think, that personal religious experience has its root and centre in mystical states of consciousness’

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What does James say Mystical Experiences do?

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‘They modify inner life’

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Other than mystical experiences, what does James also discuss?

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Conversion experiences

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How does James identify conversion experiences?

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Where a person becomes united, consciously right and happy

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What book did Rudolph Otto write?

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The Idea of Holy

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How does Otto describe God?

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‘Wholly Other’

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What does Otto say about religious experiences?

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There is the common theme of a general ‘sense of awe’ in the presence of the supernatural or what he described as ‘numinous’

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What phrase does Otto describe the supernatural element of religious experience?

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‘Mysterium tremendum et fascinans’

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What does ‘Mysterium tremendum et fascinans’ mean?

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Mystery, tremendous and fascinating

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How does Happold explain ‘Mysterium tremendum et facinans’?

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Mysterium-Implies something wholly other than man
Tremendum-The ideas of awefullness, overpoweringness
Fascinans-The idea of something which draws one in spite of one’s self

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What did Marx say about religion?

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It ‘is a sigh of the oppressed creature’ and is a response to mystery

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What are via positiva and via negativa attempts at?

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To deal with the complexity of talking about God and his attributes

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What is via positiva?

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Attempts to talk about God in the most positive terms

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What is via negativa?

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Attempts to describe God by saying what it was not

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Who wrote the Cloud of Unknowing?

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It is an anonymous work

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Give an example of a via negativa description

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God is not evil (if we were to say he was good we would be limiting him to human standards of goodness)

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How does via positiva work?

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He reveals himself to an extent which creation can see from our understanding of humanity, the perfection of God

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What was Augustine of Hippo’s religious experience?

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Describes a gradual conversion experience which finally culminates in a particular moment of realisation when reading a NT passage

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What was Hildegard of Bingen’s religious experience?

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She had numerous visions and revelations often described in terms of ‘light’ and ‘fire’

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Give an example of Hildegard’s visions

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‘I saw a fiery light coming from the open heavens’

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What was Julian of Norwich’s religious experience?

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Received 16 visions giving her a greater understanding of the Passion of Christ and depth of God’s love for all humanity

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What book did St Augustine write?

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Confessions

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What book did Julian of Norwich write?

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Revelations of Divine Love

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What book did Margery Kempe write?

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The Book of Margery Kempe

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What was Margery Kempe’s religious experience?

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She would break into bouts of uncontrollable sobbing and crying out when she was mindful of Christ’s passion

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What is Margery Kempe’s religious experience an example of?

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Visible and audible experience of Christ’s suffering

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What was Teresa of Avila’s religious experience?

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She describes a spiritual journey where you go even deeper into the depths of your own being

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What does Teresa of Avila say about her experience?

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‘The understanding cannot grasp it’

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What book did St Teresa write?

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The Interior Castle

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What poem did St John of the Cross write?

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The Dark Night of the Soul

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What is St John of the Cross’s famous quote?

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‘I left my cares forgotten amongst the lilies’

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What was Martin Luther’s religious experience?

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Had a conversion experience after reading Romans 1:17

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What is Romans 1:17

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‘he who is righteous should live’

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What was John Wesley’s religious experience?

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He was moved when reading Luther’s commentary on Romans while hearing about in Aldersgate

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What was Wesley’s famous quote?

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‘I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust Christ’

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What are Walter Stace’s two types of religious experience?

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Introvertive and Extrovertive

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What does Swinburne say about revelation?

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Each of his five categories can be seen as revelatory bu nature since they reveal something of God/ultimate reality

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What does Keith Ward say revelation is?

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‘Divine Self-Disclosure’

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Why according to Ward is revelation ‘Divine Self-Disclosure’?

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Since if there is a God, surely he would want to communicate himself to us in some way

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What link can we make to religion using Ward’s criteria?

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That religion is revelation

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What are Caroline Franks Davis six types of Religious Experience?

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Interpretive Experiences
Quasi-Sensory Experiences
Revelatory Experiences
Regenerative Experiences
Numinous Experiences
Mystical Experiences
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What are interpretive experiences?

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A religious experience not because of anything special but previous religious interpretive framework

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What are Quasi-Sensory experiences?

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Experiences connected to sense perception

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What are revelatory experiences?

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An ‘enlightenment experience’ in which religious content make them a religious experience

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What are regenerative experiences?

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Conversion experiences or renewal of faith

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What are numinous experiences?

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An experience of God’s unapproachable holiness

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What are mystical experiences?

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The sense of apprehending ultimate reality or oneness with God

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What is Dhikr?

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Remembrance of Allah through a special devotional act

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What is Sufism?

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The inner mystical element of Islam

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What did Ninian Smartt think about Otto’s work?

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Interesting but restrictive since Otto relies on thesim

A2 Theology: Religious Experience (3 decks)

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