Religious experiences
- Created by: Birdy234
- Created on: 15-05-17 11:12
View mindmap
- Religious Experiences
- Types of Religious Experiences
- Numinous
- Miracle
- Mysticism
- Meditation
- Convertion
- Prayer
- Numinous Experiences
- Rudolf Otto
- Mysterium Tremendum Et Fascinans
- A mystery so beautiful or terrifying it inspires curiosity and fascination
- FOR
- Sometimes no other explanation
- Lots of historical examples
- AGAINST
- Can be caused by something else
- Only some experience them
- Unprovable
- Mysterium Tremendum Et Fascinans
- Rudolf Otto
- James Williams
- Four main parts of religious experiences
- Ineffable = Beyond Words
- Noetic = Insight into deep and meaningful truth
- Passive = No control over it
- Transient = short lived with long term effects
- Fruits of religious experiences
- Feeling of a higher power or friendly loving being
- Change in the emphasis of their life
- Person is left with the awareness of something greater
- Left with a 'High' feeling
- Four main parts of religious experiences
- Mysticism
- John of the Cross
- Night of the senses
- Night of the spirit
- Theresa of Avila
- Fits in with the church's ideology
- Changes the person's life
- Discussed with spiritual advisor
- Julian of Norwich
- 16 'Showings' in two days
- Wrote about the nature of the trinity
- John of the Cross
- Propositional/ Non - Propositional
- Propositional = God directly reveals themself
- Non - Propositional = More of a feeling about the existence of God
- Alternative explanations
- Psychological (Sigman Freud)
- Wishful thinking
- Repressed sexual emotions
- Neurotic Illness
- Making sense of a chaotic world
- Sociological (Karl Marx)
- Used to keep the rich rich and the poor poor
- "Self determination removed through the dehumanising activities which fill the pockets of the rich" - Marx
- All religion is rooted in the economy
- Serves to maintain the system
- Physiological
- Trauma
- Shock
- Dehydration
- PTSD
- Illness or disease
- Placebo effect
- Near death experiences
- Psychological (Sigman Freud)
- Objectivist/ Subejectivist
- Subjectivist = Most important component is the effect it has on the person, not as evidence for God
- Untitled
- Objectivist = Uses it as evidence for the existence of God
- Types of Religious Experiences
Comments
No comments have yet been made