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What are the 3 types of religious experience? - Answer Visions, numinous experiences and mystical experiences How many categories did St Augustine classify visions into? - Answer 3 What are Augustine's 3 categories of visions? - Answer Corporeal, imaginative & intellectual What is...

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Religious Studies A Level: Paper 1
Philosophy of Religion & Ethics Final
Exam Solved Correctly.
What are the 3 types of religious experience? - Answer Visions, numinous experiences and mystical
experiences



How many categories did St Augustine classify visions into? - Answer 3



What are Augustine's 3 categories of visions? - Answer Corporeal, imaginative & intellectual



What is an example of a corporeal vision? - Answer The 18 visions of Mary that Bernadette of Lourdes
experienced



What is a corporeal vision? - Answer Where the visionary sees the figure/object in the same way as
someone who see a chair - there are empirical in that supernatural experiences are mediated through
physical senses



What is an imaginative vision? - Answer Visions which are mediated through 'the mind's eye' - not
through physical sight (often form of dreams)



Give an example of an imaginative vision? - Answer Joseph's dream - he was told that Mary was
pregnant (through the Holy Spirit) and that he should marry her



What is an intellectual vision? - Answer Where there is no image - but the subject claims to 'see' things
as they really are - they enlighten the soul



Intellectual visions are _____________ visions. - Answer mystical



Why are intellectual visions hard to understand/ - Answer Because they defy description

, Give an example of a mystic who frequently experienced intellectual visions? - Answer Teresa of Ávila



Mysterium - Answer Refers to something far removed from humanity that can be experienced but not
understood - elicits a response of awe & wonder



Tremendum - Answer Refers to the fearsome experience of God's overwhelming majesty & engery



What does tremendum create? - Answer A sense of human nothingness & sinfulness - consequently a
dependence on God



Fascinans - Answer the compulsive & attractive nature of the experience creates the desire for a
relationship with God (despite its fearful nature)



What does the fascinans create? - Answer An awareness of the need for salvation



What was the title of Otto's book on the nature of religious experience? - Answer 'The Idea of the
Holy'''



What does the word 'holy' mean? - Answer An adjective meaning 'other than'/'separate from' it
expresses the absolute distinctness of God from the universe



What is an experience of the numinous? - Answer Where a presence & reality cannot be understood
with the senses or intellect; it is a sense of the holy.



Name the example Otto gave of numinous experience. - Answer The call of Isaiah (Isaiah 6:1-8)



What were the key ideas of Otto's thinking about numinous experiences? - Answer - It is an experience
that is the basis of all genuine religion

- It is a non-rational & unique form of experience, totally outside our everyday experience

- It is a sense of the wholly other

- The emphasis is on God's transcendence

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