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Summary Notes: Religious Experiences
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Concise notes on religious experiences applicable to all exam boards A sufficient amount of scholars
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1.
The New Dictionary of Theology (Nature of Religious Experiences)
Answer: \'Religious experience without religious reflection is blind, every claim to an experience of God requires examination\'
2.
Schleiermacher
Answer: \'a sense of the ultimate and an awareness of wholeness\'
3.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Answer: \'I wish I could give a description of what I learnt [...] but I find it impossible\'
4.
Rudolf Otto
Answer: \'The numinous is \'the deepest and most fundamental element in all strong and sincerely felt religious emotion\' \'the numinous is thus felt as objective and outside the self\'
5.
Teasdall (Mysticism)
Answer: \'direct immediate experience of the ultimate reality\'
6.
St Paul, Galatians 4:13-14
Answer: \'You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first\'
7.
Wittgenstein
Answer: \'The world is everything that is the case\'
8.
Richard Swinburne (Arguments for Religious Experiences)
Answer: \'How things seem to be is good grounds for a belief about how they are\'
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P2: Religious ExperiencesScholarly Definitions:
Ninian Smart: “involves some kind of perception of the invisible world”
Schleiermacher: “offers a sense of the ultimate and an awareness of wholeness”
William James: draws on common emotions but they are directed at the divine giving the
person a feeling of reverence
Otto: “Mysterium tremendum et fascinans” (a terrifying and compelling mystery)
Descriptions:
1. Noetic: takes place in the mind
2. Transient: they are temporary; remembered imperfectly but felt so profoundly
important
3. Passive: you cannot choose to have them, they just occur
4. Ineffable: too hard to define
5. Direct: experient feels they are in direct contact with God or an ultimate truth
6. Indirect: experience of God’s creation, feeling of wholly other eg. watching the sunrise
7. Numinous: a feeling of the divine or something wholly other
8. Corporate: several people all experiencing the same
+ eg. Toronto Blessing
9. Private: singular experient
William James: (commonalities in all religious experiences)
More info: William James Argument - Religious Studies - Revision World
Passive
Ineffable
Noetic
Transient
Types of Religious Experiences:
- Conversion
- Prayer
- Meditation
- Mysticism
Conversion Experiences:
eg. St. Paul
1. intellectual: from one religion to another after deciding old system of thought is false
2. moral: from immoral to moral behaviour/change in lifestyle/ethics
St. Paul’s is both as he converted to Christianity and became morally good
Revelation:
1. Propositional: refers to God directly revealing truths
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