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Religious Exprience Flashcards

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Religious experience

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A moment when a person comes into contact with God in some way

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William James

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American Psychologist and Philosopher
Wrote on the the idea of Religious Experience

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4 Main Characteristics of Religious Experience PINT

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William James believed that there were 4 features of religious experience
PASSIVITY
INEFFABLE
NOETIC
TRANSIENT

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4 Main Characteristics of Religious Experience PASSIVITY

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The EXPERIENCER has a sense something is ACTING UPON THEM
They are not taking the leading role

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4 Main Characteristics of Religious Experience INEFFABLE

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The experience is BEYOND PROPER DESCRIPTION CANNOT be EXPRESSED with WORDS
James claimed this was the most OBVIOUS MARK of RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

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4 Main Characteristics of Religious Experience NOETIC

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The EXPERIENCER feels they have GAINED DEEP and DIRECT KNOWLEDGE of God
Knowledge DEEPER than that of EVERYDAY EVENTS

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4 Main Characteristics of Religious Experience TRANSIENT

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It PASSES with TIME it’s only TEMPORARY.
EFFECTS of the EXPERIENCE may be LONGER LASTING

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William James’ Key principles for his RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

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Pragmatism
Empiricism
Pluralism

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William James’ Key principles for his RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Pragmatism

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A philosophical movement that argues that TRUTH is not something FIXED
But whatever has VALUE for us.
A THEORY Must be treated as TRUE if it WORKS in PRACTICE
Therefore we must conclude RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES are True, as the EFFECTS are EVIDENTAL

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William James’ Key principles for his RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE EMPIRICISM

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The idea that OBSERVATIONS via our SENSE lead us to UNDERSTANDING of the world
The EFFECTS of RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE;CONVERSION EXPERIENCE can be observed as EMPIRICALLY DATA

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William James’ Key principles for his RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE -PLURALISM

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Idea that TRUTH can be found in ALL RELIGIONS
James claims that EXPERINECE in DIFFERENT FAITHS showed there were SIMILARITIES
Therefore there is TRUTH in all RELIGIONS

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Mystical experience William James

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William James and other thinkers believed Religious Experiences as primarily MYSTICAL in Nature

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Mystical Experience Definition

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A DIRECT EXPERIENCE of God or ULTIMATE REALITY
A sense of ONENESS of all things

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Mystical Experience St Teresa of Avila

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She argues that EXPERIENCES should be subject to TESTS to determine if they are GENUINE
;Does it have a POSITIVE change in the person
Has it left them at PEACE or DISTURBED
Does the Experience FIT with the TEACHINGS of the CHURCH

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Mystical Experience St Teresa of Avila QUOTE Example

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“For neither with the eyes did I see anything …. I thought he was quite close to me … all the time Jesus Christ seemed to be beside me “

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Rudolph Otto

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Protestant Theologian
Attempted to identify what made religious experience RELIGIOUS rather than just Experience
Believed it was RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE was NUMINOUS

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Numinous Experience

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An experience of AWE and WONDER in the PRESENCE of God- how OTTO saw Religious Experience
Aware of our INSIGNIFICANCE in the PRESENCE of God

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Three Qualities to Numinous Exprience
According to Otto

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Otto describes a Numinous Experience in THREE WAYS;

Mysterium-Mysterious
Tremendum-Tremendous/terrifying
Fascinans- Fascinating/Compelling

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Three Qualities to Numinous Exprience
According to Otto -MYSTERIUM

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A religious experience containing a MYSTERIOUS QUALITY
The REALISATION that God can never TRULY BE UNDERSTOOD
Similar to ASLAN from LION WITCH WADROBE

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Three Qualities to Numinous Exprience
According to Otto -TREMENDUM

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God is Recognised of SUPREME IMPORTANCE thus we are FILLED with
AWE AND RESPECTFUL-FEAR of Him
; AWE-INSPIRED TERROR

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Three Qualities to Numinous Exprience
According to Otto -FASCINANS

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God has a quality that FASCINATES US
We are DRAWN TOWRDS HIM
He is both ATTRACTIVE and DANGEROUS
We feel a SENSE OF PRIVILEGE in his PRESENCE

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Conversion Experience

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An Expreince which causes a SUDDEN or GRADUAL CHANGE in SOMEONE’S BELIFE SYSTEM

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Conversion Experience -William James

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William James believed it was a way of SHIFTING ENERGIES
He also claimed that from a PSYCHOLOGICAL viewpoint it can be claimed that the SUBCONSCIOUS may be ACTIVE in a similar way to when someone is in a HYPNOTIC STATE

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Genuine religious experience WILLIAM JAMES

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The recipient truly believed they made CONTACT in SOME WAY with the DIVINE

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Real religious experience WILLIAM JAMES

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Comes from God
God makes himself known

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William James Fruits of Religious Experience Definition

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Believed that GENUINE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE had certain Affects which he referred to as FRUITS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

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William James Fruits of Religious Experience 4 types

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ELATION
CHANGE
AWARENESS
SELF-SURRENDER

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William James Fruits of Religious Experience 4 types-Awareness

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Knowledge of the Situation

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William James Fruits of Religious Experience 4 types-Elation

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GREAT HAPPINESS AND EXHILARATION

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William James Fruits of Religious Experience 4 types Change

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Different outlook of LIFE
POSITIVE CHANGE

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William James Fruits of Religious Experience 4 types Self-Surrender

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Surrendering yourself to Belief

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F.C Happlod Mystical Expirence Basics

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Believed Mystical Experiences are RELIGION in ALL its FORM and HOW they DEPEND on INTUITION

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F.C Happlod Mystical Experience ‘Divine Ground’

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-The Physical World comes from ‘DIVINE GROUND’
The DIVINE GROUND is known through INTUITION
Humans have TWO NATURES :the EGO (conscious) ‘ETERNAL SELF (spiritual spark of DIVINITY)
PURPOSE of Humanity, is to UNITE ETERNAL SELF with DIVINE GROUND

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Mystical Experiences: Visions and Voices

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Mystical Experiences often consist of Visions and Voices

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Mystical Experience Types of Visions

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Corporeal
Intellectual
Imaginative

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Mystical Experience Types of Visions:Corpoeal

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When the person actually sees a FIGURE IN FRONT OF THEM e.g the STORY OF BERNADETTE

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Mystical Experience Types of Visions-Intellectual

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Aware of Something BESIDE THEM but CANNOT actually see them in the NORMAL SENSE e.g ST TERESA of Avila

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Mystical Experience Types of Visions-Imaginative

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Visions occurring in Someone’s dream
E.g Joseph seeing God speak to him in his dream to protect Jesus and Mary from Herod

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BIBLICAL E.G of Visions

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Moses sees the BURNING BUSH (which is GOD APPEARING TO HIM )
IN EXODUS

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Mystical Experience Types of Voices

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Revelatory
Authoritative
Disembodied

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Mystical Experience Types of Voices :Revelatory

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The Voice reveals something about GOD of his WISHES

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Mystical Experience Types of Voices: Authoritative

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The Message has GOD’S AUTHORITY and is therefore RIGHT

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Mystical Experience Types of Voices: Disembodied

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The Voice appears from NO BODY but is just HEARD rather than being SEEN SPOKEN

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Example of Voices -Yorkshire Ripper

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Peter Sutcliffe convicted of murdering 13 women,
Claimed it was the VOICE OF GOD that told him to

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Examples of Conversion John Pridmore

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Former Gnagster involved in NOTORIOUS ACTIVITIES
Until he heard the voice of God, which led him to MEET A PRIEST who told to go to a CHRISTIAN RETREAT which caused him to CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY

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Biblical example of Conversion: Saul

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Saul was a PERSECUTOR of CHRISTIANS
Until he was STRUCK BLIND by God-who told him to preach the Word of God
Leading him to CONVERT

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Corporate Experience

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An experience shared by a group

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Religious Ecstasy

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An Altered State of Mind BROUGHT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
Experience INTENSE EMOTION FEELINGS of God
Less aware of the WORLD AROUND THEM

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Glossia

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Speaking In tongues
HOLY SPIRIT enables people to speak in other LANGUAGES

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Examples of Corporate Experience -ANITA MAX WYNNNN

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The Toronto Blessing 1994
In Toronto Airport reported there mass amount of of uncontrollable HOLY LAUGHTER with people believing they were UNDER the INFLUENCE of HOLY SPIRIT

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Corporate Expriences Biblical Example

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Day of PenteCost came and all believers of Jesus gathered
Where they then all fillled with the HOLY SPIRIT -speaking in DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

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STRENGTHS OF WILLIAM JAMES Understanding God -NOETIC Experience

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If the idea of GOD BEYOND OUR UNDERSTANDING,
Then WILLIAM JAMES’ NOETIC EXPERIENCE- is USEFUL
IT makes an INCOMPREHNSIBLE GOD be able to REVEAL KNOLWEDGE TO US
rather than us trying to GRASP UNDERSTANDING OF GOD

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STRENGTHS OF WILLIAM JAMES -Never claims EXISTENCE OF GOD

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William James never says EXPLICITLY that Religious Experience PROVES EXISTENCE GOD
Prevents RELIGIOUS ARROGANCE/SUPERIORITY
Just Observing and Suggesting
-UNIVERSAL?

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STRENGTHS OF WILLIAM JAMES - Psychological Openness

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James is open to study HUMAN FACULTIES(Potentiality/Capacity) of our MIND
Which other areas of SCIENCES DISCREDIT IT
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN Experiences that would be DIFFICULT to Make-Up

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Weaknesses Of William James-Bertrand Russell

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Argued That Just If was SOMEONE is AFFECTED for GOOD by a STORY of a Hero
This Does not NECESSARILY MEAN it’s true as THIS AFFECT can happen even if the STORY WERE FALSE

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Weaknesses Of William James-Anthony Flew Non Empirical statements

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Flew argues that statements which cannot be TESTED EMPIRICALLY are MEANINGLESS
“I SAW a VISION OF MARY” means nothing as it can not be EMPIRICALLY PROVEN
Flew would then REJECT James’ idea of the AUTHENTICITY of RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE .

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Weaknesses Of William James- Mystical Experience Makes sense?

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Something Beyond our Understanding can it be of any use if we cannot understand it
-HAVE WE SAID ANYTHING REALLY USELFUL?

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Weaknesses Of William James- Experiences are FALLIABLE

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MANY ARGUE James puts too much EMPHASIS on IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCES CAN BE FALLIBLE and FAIL us
Therefore a THEORY based on it is not VIABLE

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