visions

Question 1

definition

Answer 1

something seen other than by ordinary sight

Question 2

different types of vision

Answer 2

1) group
2) corporeal
3) individual
4) imaginative

Question 3

group e.g.

Answer 3

Medjugorge (bosnia) 1981

Question 4

corporeal e.g.

Answer 4

external but only visible to certain people e.g. angels appear to mary magdeline and mary mother of james and salome after resurrection

Question 5

Individual e.g.

Answer 5

Bernadette and Akita (japan 1981)

Question 6

imaginative e.g.

Answer 6

Johns vision of strange creatures in book of Revelation

Question 7

scientists on visions

Answer 7

believe that visions can be due to a highly active right side of the brain

Question 8

richard swinburne

Answer 8

a vision is normally a private experience

Question 9

Franks Davis

Answer 9

quasi-sensory

Question 10

examples of visions in the bible

Answer 10

Peter Act 10- white sheet
The Annunciation- angel gabriel and mary
Joseph (matt1 )- gabriel appears and tells him of mary

Question 11

examples of visions in the 21st century

Answer 11

fatima (1917) portugal
medjugorje (1981) Bosnia
Akita (1973-81) Japan

Question 12

Form and content of visions

Answer 12

• image with a message- peters vision of white sheet descending (act 10)
• religious figures- Joan of Arc had repeated visions of st Michael
• places-= Guru Nanaks visions of Gods court in which he was escorted into Gods presence and commanded to drink a cup of nectar
• Fantastic creatures- Ezekiel’s visions of four living creatures
• Final judgement= johns vision of the final judgement

Question 13

revelation in vision

Answer 13

normally a vision will give a message- perhaps it will take some thinking, but it will leave an impression

-leaves a lasting impression

Question 14

religious figures

Answer 14

joan of arc had many visions of st michael

Question 15

image

Answer 15

acts 10- peter white sheet lowered and within it contained every sort of animal. “now peter kill and ear!’. However peter said ‘certainly not, i have never eaten something profound or unclean’.. ‘what god has made clean you have no right to call profane’

Question 16

places

Answer 16

Guru Nanak- he was assorted to Gods court and commanded to drink a cup of nectar

Question 17

fantastic creatures

Answer 17

Ezekiels vision of four creatures; each had the face of a man, and on the right side had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle.

Question 18

final judgment

Answer 18

johns vision of the final judgement in the book of Revelations- anyones name not found in the book was thrown into a lake of fire