Types of Religious Experience
Mind map on the different types of religious experiences and some examples of each
- Created by: JMitch
- Created on: 21-05-13 09:14
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- Types of Religious Experiences
- Vision & Voices
- Visions: Something that is seen other than by ordinary sight
- Voices: Utterances from something that is not around you - E.g. spirit/ holy being
- Paul of Tarsus: Heard voices on the road to Damascus: 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'
- Is the Bible Reliable??
- Could it have been a result of severe dehydration causing the voices or the hallucinations
- St. Teresa of Avila
- Miraculously survived an illness but claimed whilst in a coma she had inner visions
- She said 'I saw Christ at my side... or at least I was conscious of him'
- Virgin Mary
- Saw the Angel Gabriel who told her she would give birth as a virgin to the son of God
- Told in the Bible and accuracy is unverifiable
- Numinous Experience
- A sense of wonder or awe in the presence of God
- Rudolf Otto suggested that all religious experiences were Numinous
- 'It is an experience of being acted upon by something "Wholly Other"'
- Examples include Nicky Cruz and St. Teresa
- St. Teresa of Avila
- Miraculously survived an illness but claimed whilst in a coma she had inner visions
- She said 'I saw Christ at my side... or at least I was conscious of him'
- Nicky Cruz
- American Gangster who was told 'God loves him' went to the church to teach the preacher a 'lesson'
- Awestruck on arrival in the church, feeling guilty he prayed
- Entrusted with the collection he asked for forgiveness and prayed
- Next day he handed in his weapons and went to Bible school beginning his own ministry
- St. Teresa of Avila
- Conversion Experience
- Experience bringing someone closer to God making them convert
- Nicky Cruz
- American Gangster who was told 'God loves him' went to the church to teach the preacher a 'lesson'
- Awestruck on arrival in the church, feeling guilty he prayed
- Entrusted with the collection he asked for forgiveness and prayed
- Next day he handed in his weapons and went to Bible school beginning his own ministry
- Paul of Tarsus: Heard voices on the road to Damascus: 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'
- Is the Bible Reliable??
- Could it have been a result of severe dehydration causing the voices or the hallucinations
- John Wesley felt a warm glow and as a result set up the Methodist Church
- C.S. Lewis
- An Agnostic at University who befriended Christians which opened his mind to a non-Christian God
- Strange occurrences began to take place which made Lewis relent to God's 'unrelenting reproach'
- Christianity influenced his writing (E.g. Aslan who dies and returns like Jesus
- Corporate Experiences
- These are public experiences visibly affecting more than one person
- Toronto Blessing
- Church in Toronto which was the seen of mass religious experiences in 1994
- Included: Mass Hysteria, Glossolalia, Prophecy and shaking
- Affected many people and had attracted 2.5 million visitors by 2000
- Some were edified by the experience claiming to be touched by the Holy Spirit
- Others claimed it was the work of the Devil
- Vision & Voices
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