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Religious Experience Flashcards

1
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What is the most discussed method of communicating with God or the ultimate?

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Religious experience

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What sort of encounter is a religious experience ?

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Opaque encounter

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Religious experience has what sort of nature?

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Highly ambiguous

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Why are religious experience subjective?

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They happen on an individual level

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Is religious experience empirical or non-empirical?

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Non-empirical

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Is religious experience a priori or a posteriori?

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A posteriori

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How do we give God a real quality?

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If he communicates via direct manner

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When do people have a pivotal moment when belief enters actuality?

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When they have religious experience

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9
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Numerous people underwent a religious experience?

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Toronto blessing

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Why does the Toronto blessing doubt whether God is personal?

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Because it happened to so many people

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Who’s book is on religion: discourses to its cultural despisers?

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Schleiermacher

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12
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Where did ‘numinous’ come from?

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Latin of numen meaning divine power

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13
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What year was the Toronto blessing?

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1994

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14
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What did Otto say about religious experience ?

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God can be known through feeling

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15
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Who came up with the four main rulings ?

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William James

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16
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Ineffability means?

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Experience is so extraordinary cannot be described in a way that would make them intelligible to anyone who has not had an experience

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17
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What is Noetic?

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Provide some kind of insight or carry a message of revelation

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18
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David hays religious experience research unit of 1500 people how many credible cases were there?

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45% credible cases

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God communicates

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With a high number of the population

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20
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What is a logical contradiction?

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If the message does not contribute to the persons life

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21
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Why is the transcendent nature of God open for debate?

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One cannot know God because of distance , epistemic distance prevents humans being aware

22
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An example of God being distant ?

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Story of the fall where humans became aware

23
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There are numerous forms of..

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Religious experience

24
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Who classified religious experiences ?

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Caroline franks David’s

25
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Interpretive experience means

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No specific religious characteristics but to a person with prior religious belief

26
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Example of an interpretive experience ?

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Answering a prayer

27
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Why are interpretive experiences criticised ?

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Accused of not looking for sufficient reason for proponents of legitimacy of religious experiences

28
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Quasi-sensory experience is a ..

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Physical experience

29
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An example of a quasi-sensory experience?

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Viewing a vision or hearing a voice

30
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Criticism of quasi- sensory

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Cannot be adjudged for legitimacy as they are ineffable

31
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Quasi-sensory.. Criticism

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If God is all powerful the human body should not be able to decipher what he radiates

32
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Quasi-sensory-sensory.. If we should not be able to decipher what he radiates criticism

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If you accept God created human life surely he has knowledge to communicate effectively however why isn’t he more clear in his communication

33
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Ineffable nature of religious experience which theodicy relates?

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In relation to irenanen theodicy - john hicks

34
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What is epistemic distance ?

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Where God does not communicate directly as it would overwhelm the individual or on a mass scale the human race

35
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What is a revelatory experience?

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Religious light or reasoning coming to enlightenment - ultimate knowledge

36
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Revelatory experience is criticised by

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Freud - religious experiences are simply the creations of the brain and are false examples of our desires

37
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Regenerative experience means

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Gives a faith renewing quality or coverts people

38
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What is a criticism of regenerative experience?

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Can’t be said which faith the experience is of or which God

39
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An example of a regenerative experience?

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Yusuf Islam - CAT STEVENS was christian and after a life changing miracle he followed Allah

40
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What is a problem with discussing God or the ultimate ?

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Each religion has its own qualities or ideals of God

41
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A bible quote of tongues ?

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‘And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with tongues, as a spirit have them utterance’

42
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A mystical experience beyond logic?

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Tongues

43
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Christians who would like translation can ask for it in which language

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Tongues

44
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Communication with God is worthless if we cannot ..

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Prove credibility

45
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Swinburne - principle of credulity

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‘If it seems to a person that something is present , then it probably is present’
Criticism : unless we have specific reason to question then we accept it as prima facie evidence for existence of God

46
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What does Michael martins the atheist claim

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If Swinburne suggests experiences are to be treated as veridical then this allows an argument from the absence of religious experience to be constructed

47
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An atheist who experiences absence of God can argue from

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Principle of credulity

48
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All experience is subjective therefore

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Logically consistent

49
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Reasons for experiences synonymous with religious experiences

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Dreaming/hallucinating

50
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People would argue God to intervene is benevolent nature however

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He allows people to die such as holocaust

51
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A problem of legitimacy is

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Derren Browns miracles for sale shows illegitimacy of religious experience - teaching someone to become a illegitimate faith healer opens up debate if religion is trying to prove itself via greed to be legitimate

52
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At Theresa of Avila’s quote

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I wish I could argue the smallest part of what I have learnt but when I trust I find it impossible

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