Religious Experience - Quotes Flashcards
Mysterium quote
‘quite beyond the sphere of the usual…filling the mind with blank wonder and astonishment’
- The Idea of the Holy, Rudolph Otto
Tremendum quotes
‘religious dread’
‘aweful majesty’
‘absolute overpoweringness’
- The Idea of the Holy, Rudolph Otto
Fascinans quote
‘queer and marvellous, horrifying and fascinating, divine and daemonic, and a source of energy’
- The Idea of the Holy, Rudolph Otto
Ineffability quote
‘no adequate report of its contents can be given in words’
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
Noetic quality quotes
mystical states are ‘states of knowledge’
‘full of significance and importance’
carry a ‘curious sense of authority for after-time’
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
Transiency quote
‘Mystical states cannot be sustained for long’
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
Passivity quotes
mystic is ‘grasped and held by a superior power’
mystic feels as if ‘his own will were in abeyance’ (disuse)
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
Extrovertive experiences quotes
objects are ‘transfigured in such manner that the Unity shines through them’
‘still perceives physical objects’ but ‘perceives them as “all one”’
a ‘halfway house to the introvertive’
- The Teachings of the Mystics, Walter Stace
Introvertive experiences quotes
‘beyond the senses’
‘awareness of the world… is completely obliterated’
the experience is ‘an undifferentiated unity’
- The Teachings of the Mystics, Walter Stace
Principle of Credulity
‘if it seems… to a subject that x is present, then probably x is present; what one seems to perceive is probably so.’
- The Existence of God, Swinburne
Principle of Testimony
‘the experiences of others are (probably as they report them’
- The Existence of God, Swinburne
Michael Martin: strongest man of County Cork quote
‘how could you tell from only the voice that the being you heard was omnipotent, omniscient and completely free?’
- The Principle of Credulity and Religious Experience, Michael Martin
Michael Martin: Reverse PC
‘If it seems (epistemically) to a subject S that x is absent, then probably x is absent’
- The Principle of Credulity and Religious Experience, Michael Martin
Michael Martin: anything can exist if one believes in PC
‘it would seem that one must assume ha the Universe is populated by all manner of stranger entities’
the ‘swamp of gullibilism’
- The Principle of Credulity and Religious Experience, Michael Martin
The numinous as an experience of the Holy quote
‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.’
- Isaiah
