Religious Experience - Visions

Question 1

What are the 3 types of visions?

Answer 1

CORPOREAL, IMAGINARY, INTELLECTUAL

Question 2

Explain corporeal visions

Answer 2

-visions seen through physical senses
-can be seeing a religious figure or even seeing God through nature

Question 3

give a historical example of a corporeal vision

Answer 3

BERNADETTE - in Lourdes (pilgrimage site), aged 14 gathering firewood. ‘came a dazzling light and a white figure’

Question 4

Explain imaginary visions

Answer 4

-Image formed in the person’s imagination + has no existence external to the person ( not sensorial hallucination) EG: dreams
-beyond individual conscious control
-doesn’t see through senses, but through the ‘ minds’ eye ‘
- usually SYMBOLIC of some truth

Question 5

give a historical example of an imaginary vision

Answer 5

Pharoah’s Dream - Bible

Question 6

Explain intellectual visions

Answer 6

-no image, not seen by the eye / minds’ eye
-elusive, spiritual, formless
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