William James
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- William James
- Attributes of Religious Experience
- Transcience
- The actual experience is quite short - it doesn't last more than a few hours
- The effect of the experience could last a lifetime.
- Noetic Quality
- Having a RE has made the person realise that things could not have been reached without reason
- The truth is revealed to the person
- Ineffability
- It is impossible to explain a RE using only the words that we know
- Passivity
- The person having the RE feels as though it is being controlled by outside of themselves
- They are recipients, not instigators.
- Transcience
- A RE does not prove anything
- It is reasonable to believe that there is a personal God who is interested in the world and in individuals.
- James explained this as a hypothesis
- James explained this as a hypothesis
- It is reasonable to believe that there is a personal God who is interested in the world and in individuals.
- A RE is a psychological phenomena occurring in the brain.
- This doesn't mean that they are just a phenomena.
- It is not reasonable for scholars or ordinary people to reject clear evidence of RE just b/c they started from a position of scepticism
- They can be a supernatural element as well as a physical element.
- Empiricism
- WJ'S case studies provide evidence of the effects of RE
- Provides clues to the reality beyond what we see and hear.
- Pluralism
- All faiths are similar, they all experience the same reality, just interpret it differently
- Pragmatism
- There is truth to be found in religion
- The truth is not fixed
- The truth is whatever has great value to us.
- Attributes of Religious Experience
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