Some info on Religious Experience
- Created by: Ellen Hannah
- Created on: 18-05-14 14:39
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- Religious Experience
- Definition of a R/E
- Mental events
- A deeper awareness of the divine
- Non-empirical occurrences - supernatural
- Sometimes caused by an external object
- Types of R/E
- Mystical - union with the divine
- Prayer - experiences brought about through prayer + meditation
- Conversion - permanent + life-changing
- Revelation
- Public/private
- Vision/voices
- Induced
- Numinous
- Corporate experiences
- Swinburne
- Supported arg from R/E
- Suggested that each case should be treated in same way we keep reports of others.
- Believe them. Take them in face value.
- We should q R/E accounts
- PRINCIPLE OF CREDULITY - experience = usually reliable + can be trusted. Sometimes senses mislead us.
- What you percieve to be true is prob the case unless: person = unreliable, perceptions = shown to be false, strong evidence that doesn't exist or can be accounted in other ways
- PRINCIPLE OF TESTIMONY - should believe a person unless we have good reason to to
- People usually tell truth
- Oublic experiences - ordinary, extra-ordinary and private - describable in normal lang,
- Mackie (responded to Swinburne's P of T)
- Might know people normally not deceitful + untrustworthy - but could be mistake. Could interpret events wrong by saying experience came from G-d when in fact the source was different. He thought balance of probability was that it would be a mistake.
- Christianity
- Revelation
- Revealed to Peter, James + John that Jesus was to fulfil the messianic prophecy in Jews Scripture
- Conversion
- Saul to St Paul
- Vision
- St Bernadette of Lourdes, vision of Virgin Mary
- Mystical
- St Teresa of Avila - spiritual marriage with G-d during illeness
- Revelation
- Freud
- Reliigon = illusion - way of expressing desires. subconsiously desrire for G-d to resemble father
- Challeneges to R/E
- Marx
- R/E = illusions - imaginary projection of needs + qualities people think = important
- Description - unexplainable experience
- Subject - evidence of mental ill health - unreliable
- Conflicting claims - all religions claim they have truth
- Marx
- Marx
- R/E = illusions - imaginary projection of needs + qualities people think = important
- Challeneges to R/E
- Description - unexplainable experience
- Subject - evidence of mental ill health - unreliable
- Conflicting claims - all religions claim they have truth
- Definition of a R/E
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