Religious Experience Scholars

Question 1

Freud

Answer 1

• thought that religion was an illusion that prevented people living full lives
• “childhood neurosis”

Question 2

Schliermacher

Answer 2

• Thought that religious experiences should form the basis of religion
• “(they) are a sense and a taste of the infinite”

Question 3

Otto

Answer 3

-Thought that religious experiences were mystical and explicable encounters with the divine

Question 4

Russell

Answer 4

Thought that religious experience are an illusion and that there impacts do not necessarily guarantee their truth
“the fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is in no evidence whatsoever in favour of it’s truth”

Question 5

Marx on religious experiences being caused by psychology

Answer 5

product of the culture a person lives in

Question 6

Kierkgaad on religious faith

Answer 6

t is a miracle- faith involves a leap, cannot be logically explained, parallel to religious experiences

Question 7

scholar criticising Swinburne’s approach

Answer 7

Caroline Franks-Davis: while we can take everyday claims at face values, the issue of religious experience is not a trivial one thus deserves a more critical treatment