Religious Experience Flashcards
what is a religious experience?
- an experience in a religious context
- something out of the ordinary
- difficult to verify
types of religious experience
- numinous-feeling another presence
- visions
- voices
- conversion-making a commitment
- corporate-group
give an example of a corporate religious experience
Toronto blessing
give an example of a religious experience
Teresa A villa
what is a mystical experience (James’)
a subjective experience beyond normal awareness
4 criteria (pint)
ineffable-cannot be described
noetic-revelation of truth or insight
transient-short time but leaves an effect
passive-feeling of being taken over
what are the 4 fruits?
- conviction of something beyond material world
- immense feeling of elation and freedom
- feeling of having met a friendly power-self surrender
- change in lifestyle
St Teresa of A villas criteria
- does it fit with christianity
- has it permanently changed the person
what is a conversion
a change of heart and turning around of ones priorities
conversion-what is the volitional type?
gradual change and slow development of new moral and spiritual habits
self-surrender type
a sudden,pivotal crisis experience followed by a change of life
give a criticism of James
ED Starbucks-conversion in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon
Criticisms of the toronto blessing
- work of demons
- speaking in tongues is something more comprehensible
- there is no sense of people acting in this manner
- mass hypnosis
what is veridical
does what it says
