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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?
'They modify inner life'
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Other than mystical experiences, what does James also discuss?
Conversion experiences
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How does James identify conversion experiences?
Where a person becomes united, consciously right and happy
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What book did Rudolph Otto write?
The Idea of Holy
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How does Otto describe God?
'Wholly Other'
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What does Otto say about religious experiences?
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?
'Mysterium tremendum et fascinans'
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What does 'Mysterium tremendum et fascinans' mean?
Mystery, tremendous and fascinating
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How does Happold explain 'Mysterium tremendum et facinans'?
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?
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?
To deal with the complexity of talking about God and his attributes
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What is via positiva?
Attempts to talk about God in the most positive terms
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What is via negativa?
Attempts to describe God by saying what it was not
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Who wrote the Cloud of Unknowing?
It is an anonymous work
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Give an example of a via negativa description
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?
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?
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?
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
'I saw a fiery light coming from the open heavens'
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What was Julian of Norwich's religious experience?
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?
Confessions
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What book did Julian of Norwich write?
Revelations of Divine Love
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What book did Margery Kempe write?
The Book of Margery Kempe
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What was Margery Kempe's religious experience?
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?
Visible and audible experience of Christ's suffering
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What was Teresa of Avila's religious experience?
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?
'The understanding cannot grasp it'
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What book did St Teresa write?
The Interior Castle
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What poem did St John of the Cross write?
The Dark Night of the Soul
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What is St John of the Cross's famous quote?
'I left my cares forgotten amongst the lilies'
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What was Martin Luther's religious experience?
Had a conversion experience after reading Romans 1:17
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What is Romans 1:17
'he who is righteous should live'
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What was John Wesley's religious experience?
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?
'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?
Introvertive and Extrovertive
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What does Swinburne say about revelation?
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?
'Divine Self-Disclosure'
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Why according to Ward is revelation 'Divine Self-Disclosure'?
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?
That religion is revelation
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What are Caroline Franks Davis six types of Religious Experience?
``` Interpretive Experiences Quasi-Sensory Experiences Revelatory Experiences Regenerative Experiences Numinous Experiences Mystical Experiences ```
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What are interpretive experiences?
A religious experience not because of anything special but previous religious interpretive framework
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What are Quasi-Sensory experiences?
Experiences connected to sense perception
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What are revelatory experiences?
An 'enlightenment experience' in which religious content make them a religious experience
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What are regenerative experiences?
Conversion experiences or renewal of faith
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What are numinous experiences?
An experience of God's unapproachable holiness
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What are mystical experiences?
The sense of apprehending ultimate reality or oneness with God
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What is Dhikr?
Remembrance of Allah through a special devotional act
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What is Sufism?
The inner mystical element of Islam
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What did Ninian Smartt think about Otto's work?
Interesting but restrictive since Otto relies on thesim

A2 Theology: Religious Experience (3 decks)

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