types of religious experience
examples of religious experience key words
Personal Revelations
-ST. Teresa of Avila (ineffable) -knowledge that can corporate
-ST Bernadette only be gained through a group of people
corporate God who share a
-that cant have been religious
-Toronto blessing
experience
-Lourdes pilgrimage known otherwise
"miracle of the sun" Fatima Portugal Numinous personal
conversion -feeling of awe one person that
inspiring and fear at has a religious
-Saul to ST Paul
experience
the same time e.g.
CS Evans Jesus calming the conversion
a religious experience or
-monist :the individual becomes intensely aware of storm
the essential one-ness of all things ,feeling they are in encounter that results in
a person moving away
union with the divine
from a life of sin to a life
Numinous: a sense of separateness or otherness of
God, in which the individual becomes aware of their religious with God
experience
smallness compared to God
Swinburne
principle of testimony
William James Qualities of religious
-usually people tell the
Rudolph Otto -religious experiences are experience
truth, less often
people lie or deceive
in "the ideas of the holy" Otto "self authenticating" -ineffable=can't be principle of credulity
elaborates the numinous concept . He -he took a pragmatic put into words -experiences are usually
believed that the numinous feeling is phycological approach by -Noetic=gain insight trustworthy, so we should trust the
at the centre of all religious only looking at the effects person who experienced it unless
into God
there is evidence to prove
experience, saying that if someone can of religious experiences -passivity=you have otherwise
feel such an intense feeling the n control over the -e.g. saying you saw god whilst
experience at least must be real to experience on a walk is just as credible as
them transient=the saying you saw a dog whilst on a
experience is short walk
lived
examples of religious experience key words
Personal Revelations
-ST. Teresa of Avila (ineffable) -knowledge that can corporate
-ST Bernadette only be gained through a group of people
corporate God who share a
-that cant have been religious
-Toronto blessing
experience
-Lourdes pilgrimage known otherwise
"miracle of the sun" Fatima Portugal Numinous personal
conversion -feeling of awe one person that
inspiring and fear at has a religious
-Saul to ST Paul
experience
the same time e.g.
CS Evans Jesus calming the conversion
a religious experience or
-monist :the individual becomes intensely aware of storm
the essential one-ness of all things ,feeling they are in encounter that results in
a person moving away
union with the divine
from a life of sin to a life
Numinous: a sense of separateness or otherness of
God, in which the individual becomes aware of their religious with God
experience
smallness compared to God
Swinburne
principle of testimony
William James Qualities of religious
-usually people tell the
Rudolph Otto -religious experiences are experience
truth, less often
people lie or deceive
in "the ideas of the holy" Otto "self authenticating" -ineffable=can't be principle of credulity
elaborates the numinous concept . He -he took a pragmatic put into words -experiences are usually
believed that the numinous feeling is phycological approach by -Noetic=gain insight trustworthy, so we should trust the
at the centre of all religious only looking at the effects person who experienced it unless
into God
there is evidence to prove
experience, saying that if someone can of religious experiences -passivity=you have otherwise
feel such an intense feeling the n control over the -e.g. saying you saw god whilst
experience at least must be real to experience on a walk is just as credible as
them transient=the saying you saw a dog whilst on a
experience is short walk
lived
