Religious Experience

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Religious experience

Question 2

What sort of encounter is a religious experience ?

Answer 2

Opaque encounter

Question 3

Religious experience has what sort of nature?

Answer 3

Highly ambiguous

Question 4

Why are religious experience subjective?

Answer 4

They happen on an individual level

Question 5

Is religious experience empirical or non-empirical?

Answer 5

Non-empirical

Question 6

Is religious experience a priori or a posteriori?

Answer 6

A posteriori

Question 7

How do we give God a real quality?

Answer 7

If he communicates via direct manner

Question 8

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

Answer 8

When they have religious experience

Question 9

Numerous people underwent a religious experience?

Answer 9

Toronto blessing

Question 10

Why does the Toronto blessing doubt whether God is personal?

Answer 10

Because it happened to so many people

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Schleiermacher

Question 12

Where did ‘numinous’ come from?

Answer 12

Latin of numen meaning divine power

Question 13

What year was the Toronto blessing?

Answer 13

1994

Question 14

What did Otto say about religious experience ?

Answer 14

God can be known through feeling

Question 15

Who came up with the four main rulings ?

Answer 15

William James

Question 16

Ineffability means?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What is Noetic?

Answer 17

Provide some kind of insight or carry a message of revelation

Question 18

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

Answer 18

45% credible cases

Question 19

God communicates

Answer 19

With a high number of the population

Question 20

What is a logical contradiction?

Answer 20

If the message does not contribute to the persons life

Question 21

Why is the transcendent nature of God open for debate?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

An example of God being distant ?

Answer 22

Story of the fall where humans became aware

Question 23

There are numerous forms of..

Answer 23

Religious experience

Question 24

Who classified religious experiences ?

Answer 24

Caroline franks David’s

Question 25

Interpretive experience means

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Example of an interpretive experience ?

Answer 26

Answering a prayer

Question 27

Why are interpretive experiences criticised ?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Quasi-sensory experience is a ..

Answer 28

Physical experience

Question 29

An example of a quasi-sensory experience?

Answer 29

Viewing a vision or hearing a voice

Question 30

Criticism of quasi- sensory

Answer 30

Cannot be adjudged for legitimacy as they are ineffable

Question 31

Quasi-sensory.. Criticism

Answer 31

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

Question 32

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

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Ineffable nature of religious experience which theodicy relates?

Answer 33

In relation to irenanen theodicy - john hicks

Question 34

What is epistemic distance ?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What is a revelatory experience?

Answer 35

Religious light or reasoning coming to enlightenment - ultimate knowledge

Question 36

Revelatory experience is criticised by

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Regenerative experience means

Answer 37

Gives a faith renewing quality or coverts people

Question 38

What is a criticism of regenerative experience?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

An example of a regenerative experience?

Answer 39

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

Question 40

What is a problem with discussing God or the ultimate ?

Answer 40

Each religion has its own qualities or ideals of God

Question 41

A bible quote of tongues ?

Answer 41

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

Question 42

A mystical experience beyond logic?

Answer 42

Tongues

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Tongues

Question 44

Communication with God is worthless if we cannot ..

Answer 44

Prove credibility

Question 45

Swinburne - principle of credulity

Answer 45

'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

Question 46

What does Michael martins the atheist claim

Answer 46

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

Question 47

An atheist who experiences absence of God can argue from

Answer 47

Principle of credulity

Question 48

All experience is subjective therefore

Answer 48

Logically consistent

Question 49

Reasons for experiences synonymous with religious experiences

Answer 49

Dreaming/hallucinating

Question 50

People would argue God to intervene is benevolent nature however

Answer 50

He allows people to die such as holocaust

Question 51

A problem of legitimacy is

Answer 51

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

Question 52

At Theresa of Avila's quote

Answer 52

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