Religious Experience

Question 1

The Life of St Teresa of Jesus of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel

Answer 1

I was in prayer one day … when I saw Christ close by me, or to speak more correctly, felt him; for I saw nothing with the eyes of the body, nothing with the eyes of the soul.

Question 2

Isaiah 6:3

Answer 2

Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.

Question 3

Edward Culpepper

Answer 3

God is the unfathomable Mystery before whom we are awestruck and stand trembling, yet find ourselves drawn into relationship, attracted and fascinated in ways we cannot fully explain

Question 4

Pharaoh’s Dream (Genesis 41)

Answer 4

Pharaoh saw the things so realistically that when he awoke he had to adapt himself to reality,

Question 5

Joseph’s Dream (Matthew 2:13-15)

Answer 5

Leave Egypt until Harold died since he planned to kill Jesus. Reflected in the prophecy of Hosea 11:1 - ‘Out of Egypt I have called my son.’

Question 6

The problem of Pain

Answer 6

Example of a tiger in the room next to you (fear) Ghost (different kind of fear).

Question 7

Otto

Answer 7

Mysterium tremendum et fascinans

Question 8

James

Answer 8

Among the most powerful mystical experiences are those in which the mystic experiences ‘cosmic consciousness’ in which … the universe is not composed of dead matter, but is, on the contrary, a living presence.

Question 9

Swinburne

Answer 9

I suggest that it is a principle of rationality that (in the absence of special considerations) if it seems … to a subject that x is present, then probably x is present; what one seems to perceive is probably so.

Question 10

Genesis 15:6

Answer 10

Believed in the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.