Religious Experience
- Created by: Beth Millward
- Created on: 20-05-15 09:14
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- RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
- MAIN TYPES
- Awareness Experience
- seeing the work of God when looking at the world
- Regenerative Experience
- A conversion experience
- Numinous Experience
- encountering the holiness of God
- Interpretive Experience
- having prayers answered
- Mystical Experience
- a sense of the ultimate reality
- Quasi-Sensory Experience
- having a vision or other inner experience of God
- Revelatory Experience
- receiving enlightenment and knowledge, perhaps through a revelation from God
- Awareness Experience
- OTHER TYPES
- Understanding of nature
- associated with claim that God is guiding to make sense of lives and the world, therefore we understand nature because God prompted us to do so
- Prayer
- can be seen as a direct request for Gods intervention
- Music and Atmosphere
- most religions use music in contribution to worship
- e.g. dance - expression of joy - representation of religious faith and devotion to such - e.g. 'whirling dervishes' of Sufi tradition in Islam
- most religions use music in contribution to worship
- Understanding of nature
- RICHARD SWINBURNE
- it is reasonable to believe God is loving and personal
- Principles
- Principle of testimony
- whether we believe the claim or not depends on our relationship with the person making it
- e.g. we are more likely to believe a family member than a stranger
- whether we believe the claim or not depends on our relationship with the person making it
- Principle of testimony
- Proof
- own experiences of people around us (something bigger) + accounts of those around us
- OTHER PHILOSOPHERS
- AGAINST
- RICHARD DAWKINS
- religious experiences do not exist, they are merely an expression of a persons psychological needs
- FREUD
- psychological reaction
- RICHARD DAWKINS
- FOR
- WITTGENSTEIN
- 'seeing as'
- each person sees their own experiences in a different way
- 'seeing as'
- MARTIN BUBER
- a religious experience is a result of God revealing himself to us on a personal level
- WITTGENSTEIN
- NINIAN SMART
- "involves some kind of 'perception' of the invisible world, or a perception that some visible person or thing is a manifestation of the invisible world"
- HARE
- 'blik'
- unverifiable and unfalsifiable way of looking at the world
- 'blik'
- AGAINST
- cumulative argument
- different arguments put together are more convincing than a single argument alone
- AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE DIVINE
- Yellow patch
- stating that God exists has no literal significance
- NO PROOF
- a posteriori
- we must experience a religious event ourselves before understanding its correlation to God and his existence
- MAIN TYPES
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