Religious Experiences Flashcards
(51 cards)
What are corporeal visions according to Augustine of Hippo?
Corporeal visions are a form of empirical religious experience that comes through the physical sense of sight.
What type of experiences do corporeal visions involve?
Experiences through the five senses: touch, taste, hearing, smell, and sight.
Who is a historical figure known for experiencing corporeal visions?
Joan of Arc.
What did Joan of Arc claim her visions told her?
To bring renewal to the French nation.
What significant event did Joan of Arc lead after her visions?
She led the French to victory in battle against the English in the Hundred Years War.
Who is another example of someone who experienced corporeal visions?
Bernadette Soubirous.
What did Bernadette Soubirous claim to have seen during her visions?
A small young lady dressed in white with a blue waist-belt.
How many visions did Bernadette claim to have experienced?
18 visions.
What did the lady in Bernadette’s vision identify herself as?
The Immaculate Conception, meaning the Virgin Mary.
What miraculous event occurred alongside Bernadette’s visions?
The appearance of a spring of water, which has been the source of around 69 documented miracles.
What are imaginative visions?
Visions experienced in the mind without being perceived by sight.
In which biblical account does Pharaoh have a dream that requires interpretation?
Genesis 41.
What was the warning in Pharaoh’s dream interpreted by Joseph?
Seven years of plenty will be followed by seven years of famine.
What should Pharaoh do in response to the vision about famine?
Store surplus grain.
What significant event does Joseph experience in a dream in the book of Matthew?
An angel tells him to take Mary and Jesus to Egypt.
What prophecy does Matthew say Joseph’s vision fulfills?
Out of Egypt have I called my son.
What are intellectual visions?
Visions where the experiencer claims to see things as they really are without images.
Who is a notable figure associated with intellectual visions?
St Teresa of Ávila.
What does St Teresa describe about her experience of Jesus Christ?
She felt His presence without seeing any form.
What does St Teresa say about the nature of her intellectual vision?
It was an awareness of the presence of the divine.
How does St Teresa describe the illumination from an intellectual vision?
An illumination of the understanding of the soul.
What does mysticism involve according to the Catholic Encyclopaedia?
A religious tendency and desire of the human soul towards an intimate union with the Divinity.
