Visions
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- Created on: 23-05-18 18:31
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- Augustine of Hippo's types of visions
- Corporeal
- Empirical as they are mediated through the physical senses
- the figure / object is externally present
- St Bernadette
- Visions of the Virgin Mary - identified herself as the immaculate conception
- Instructed that the water at Lourdes has healing powers & a chapel was to be built on site
- 69 miraculous healings
- Empirical as they are mediated through the physical senses
- Imaginative
- When something that strengthens faith is seen with the mind's eye - no external existence
- John in the Book of Revelation
- Beast out of the earth
- Recounted visions of the final judgement
- Intellectual
- Brings knowledge and understanding
- Julian of Norwich
- Hazelnut - 'it is all that it is made' - it exists now and forever because God loves it. - Everything owes its existence to love of God
- God makes it, God loves it, God sustains it
- See things as they really are
- Corporeal
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