Apparition Experience
Specifically for the Investigations unit. Apparition visions.
- Created by: Tabitha Bolam
- Created on: 17-03-13 12:17
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- Apparition Experience
- Lourdes
- Bernadette Soubiroux
- Lived in poverty
- Born, 7th January 1844 - lived to age of 35
- Experience
- Claimed to have seen the 'immaculate conception'
- Had 18 visions
- Had 1st vision when she was 14
- Bernadette Soubiroux
- St Francis of Assisi
- Experience
- Went off to fight as soldier
- On way, had a vision & returned home
- On Pilgrimage to Rome, joined poor begging at St Pete's Basilica
- Went off to fight as soldier
- Background
- Italian Catholic Friar & Preacher
- Founded mens Franciscan order
- Italian Catholic Friar & Preacher
- Experience
- Rudolph Otto
- All religious experiences are numinous
- Feeling of the presence of something greater than you - i.e. God
- Mysterium, tremendum et fascinans
- Tendency to invoke fear
- Tendency to attract/ fascinate
- All religious experiences are numinous
- William James
- 4 main qualities
- Ineffable - In capable of being expressed
- Noetic - aprended by the reason
- Transient - not permanent
- Passive - Recipient cannot control experience - gift from God
- 4 main qualities
- Sceptics
- Became rich after experience
- City has gained lots of money from the experience
- Lourdes
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