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Religious Experience Flashcards

1
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Conversion experience

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Unlocking human potential

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Indirect religious experience

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An experience that focuses the mind on god or the Devine

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Direct religious experience

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Experience with god or the divine

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Richard Swinburne types of religious experience

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Public

Private

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Richard Swinburne types of religious experience

PUBLIC

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ordinary and everyday natural experiences

Extraordinary and miraculous violations of our understanding

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Richard Swinburne types of religious experience

PRIVATE

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describable in ordinary language
Non describable - direct, ineffable, numinous
Non specific- looking at world from religious perspective

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William James

Mysticism

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American philosopher, ill health led him to question moral ideas
Pragmatist

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Pragmatist

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Holds belief that the truth of something can be determined by its practical effects and consequences

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Passitivity

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Done to you

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Ineffability

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Indescribable

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Noetic

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Insight of the Devine

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Transiency

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Short lived experience

Long lasting effects

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Weakness of William James

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Too much reliance on personal subjective experience

Difficult to judge

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Principle of testimony

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We should generally believe what others say unless we have reason not to

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Principle of credibility

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Willingness to believe, no reason to doubt

what one perceives is probably so

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The numinous

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Presence of something greater then yourself
Higher consciousness
Egolessness, universal perspective

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Numinous dread

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Awe or awe fullness

Bigger than ordinary consciousness

18
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Different religious experience

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Numinous
Prayer
Miracle
Conversion
Visions / voices
Corporate experience
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Rudolph otto

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Looked at phenomenology of religious consciousness

Stressed non rationality nature of religious experience

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Phenomenology

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Study of conciousness as experienced from the first person point of view

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John hick

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Fundamental part of religion is experiencing as

Objective experience

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Soren kierkegaard

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Religious belief is held passionately 
God existence is a feeling not a fact
Leap of faith
Objecting certainty is not impactful 
Faith is incomprehensible but not irrational
23
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Idea of the holy

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Ottos famous work

Mysterium temendum = numinous dread

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Martin buber
Ich du
(I-you)

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Mutual holistic existence of two beings

Lacks structure, no content
Lovers
Relationship between I and god
Be open with god then sores teachings and experience that all can then know god

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Fc happold type of mystical experience

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Soul mysticism ( self fulfilment)
Nature mysticism ( god is everywhere)
God mysticism ( soul union with god)

Looks at all experiences there are
Finding soul, completing self fulfilment

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Fc happold

Types of mysticism

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1-mysticism of love and union- bigger that ourselves

2-mysticism of knowledge and understanding - the whole story of the universe

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Conversion experiences

St. Paul

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Killed Christian’s came into contact with Jesus and became Christian

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Conversion experiences

Nicky Cruz

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Raised by abusive parents
Became gang member and murderer
Christian told him about the love of Jesus
Converted

29
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Conversion experience

St Augustine

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Christian
Drunk with prostitutes
Voices led him to read St. Paul’s bible entries
Changed

30
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Corporate experiences

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Religious experience that happens to a group of people

31
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Corporate experiences

Toronto blessing

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1994
Touch of lord
Transforms you never same again
- holy spirit acting through them

32
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Corporate experiences

Glossolaila

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Speech like syllables
Purest form of prayer
Lord speaking through you

33
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Corporate experiences

Glossolalia evaluation

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\+
Brain scan- act differently when doing it
-
Doesn't prove existence of God
Exaggerated
Fake
34
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Corporate experiences

Physiological challenges

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*person experiencing Devine may have disorder eg epilepsy undermining what they thought was a religious experience

35
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Corporate experiences

Psychological challenges

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Religious illusion that satisfies people desire

Meets there needs

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Corporate experiences

Sociological challenges

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Product of culture in persona life
Not from god but the desperation of individual
Church brainwash

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