Religious experience scholars
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- Created on: 04-06-18 16:54
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- Religious experience scholars
- Rudolph Otto
- mysterium tremendum et fascinans
- Numinous is part of all religious experiences
- Freud
- Pschological
- Influenced by repressed sexual desires as a child
- William James
- iron bar and magnets
- Swinburne
- Testimony and Credulity
- Principle of Credulity- usually as they appear
- Principle of Testimony- don't need to question the things being said
- Prior Probability
- People who are already religious are more likely to have an experience
- Testimony and Credulity
- Marx
- sociology
- religion is the opiate of the people
- Davis
- religious experience doesn't point to one God
- Hume and Ayer
- would reject religious. exp. because it is unverifiable
- Ellen G White
- created the Pentecostal baptists. said she had visions but it was epilepsy
- The Toronto Blessing
- corporate religious experience
- Hanegraff- "the Toronto blessing has done more damage than good."
- St Paul and Nicky Cruz
- both had conversion experiences
- St Paul head a voice and saw a blinding white light. "why do you persecute me?" Acts 9:4
- Nicky Cruz was a leader of a New York gang. was converted by a priest.
- Rudolph Otto
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