Religious Experiences Flashcards
Intellectual Vision
Brings knowledge and understanding.
Imaginary Vision
Something that strengthens faith is seen in the mind’s eye.
Corporeal Vision
Where the figure is externally present.
Numinous Experience
A sudden sense of God’s divine creations.
Conversion
A religious experience which either strengthens your faith or changes your faith completely.
Volitional Conversion
This conversion experience is conscious and voluntary. Gradual change and slow development.
Self-Surrender Conversion
This conversion experience is unconscious and involuntary.
Ineffability
Human language is insufficient for describing the experience.
Transiency
The experience doesn’t last.
Noetic Quality
You can learn something from the experience.
Passivity
The experience happens to you.
Nature-Mysticism
Observing the beauty or vastness of nature triggers a mystical experience.
God-Mysticism
Mediating on the aspects of God and the desire to be one with God triggers a mystical experience.
The Mysticism of Love and Union
We desire a feeling of belonging. This desire can sometimes trigger a religious experience.
The Mysticism of Knowledge and Understanding
We all deserve to know the answers to everything. This desire to know can sometimes trigger a religious experience.
Existential Judgements
A ‘primary’ question, that is concerned with the nature of something.
Value Judgements
A ‘secondary’ question which is concerned with the meaning, important and significance of something.
Swinburne’s Principle of Credulity
If someone believed they’ve seen something, they probably have.
Swinburne’s Principle of Testimony
All else being equal, if someone tells you something happened to them, we tend to believe them.
Medical Materialism
They believe that all religious experiences are a trick of the mind, or are explainable through medical terms only.
Corporate Religious Experience
A religious experience happens to multiple people at once.
