Religious Experience (Types)

Question 1

Types of Vision:

Answer 1

Intellectual: Brings knowledge and understanding from God
Imaginary: Strengthens faith by seeing something
Corporeal: A figure is seen

Question 2

Describe conversion:

Answer 2

-When a religious experience changes a person
-Seen as regeneration= leads to a greater understanding of faith.
Can be:
-Volitional = conscious & voluntary
-Self surrender = involuntary, unconscious
-Gradual & involve slow changes of mortal habits

Question 3

Describe Mystical experience:

Answer 3

• Knowledge of ultimate reality is gained
• Freedom from body, time, space & ego are achieved
• Oneness with the divine
• Bliss or serenity

Question 4

James 4 characteristics:

Answer 4

Ineffability- inability to describe the experience
Noetic Quality- transfers new & unexplainable information
Transiency- These experiences pass
Passivity- Subject lose control to a higher power

Question 5

Types of religious experience:

Answer 5

Vision
Conversion
Mystical

Question 6

Happolds 2 Types

Answer 6

1. Mysticism of love & Union- escape form loneliness and feeling of separation caused by conflicting desires to be an individual or part of a group
2. Mysticism of knowledge & understanding- Desire to find the truth about the universe