6. Numinous feelings are....(unique, in a class of their own, of their own kind, a faculty of our mind recognising the holy and responding to it)
Fascinas
Sui generis
mysterium et tremendum
Soi genocide
7. What are some issues with mysticism specifically?
Elitist (although Vatican II disputes saying it requires dedication), ineffability makes them not real
Vatican II says mystical experiences are a gift open to all, yet only some choose to take upon the discipline required
8. What are some issues with visions specifically?
Freud claims they're caused by mental illness, temporal lobe epilepsy could be the reason behind Paul's vision on the road to Damascus as the description fits symptoms
God could work through people's conditions, visions often have beneficial results
9. What are the three types of vision?
Imaginative, intellectual and non-corporeal
Real, impossible and fake
Corporeal, imaginative and intellectual
Corporeal, intelligent and non-corporeal
10. What are two examples of imaginative visions? (dream, vivid, illuminates soul, affects victim)
Bernadette and Pharoah's dream
Josephine's dream and Phil's dream
Pharoah's dream and Josephs dream
Joan of Arc and Bernadette
11. What can be describes as a 'non-sensucous (not involving senses) and non intellectual (rational I replaced with pure consciouness) union with the divine'.
Noetic
Mysticism
Numinous
Ineffable
12. What is a biblical example of mysterium tremendum et fascinans?
When Jesus catches a fish with his bare hands and Peter acknowledges his inadequacy
When God let's the goats go one side, and the sheep the other side
When the Old Testament God uses natural evil to evoke havoc on the enemies of the Israelites
When Jesus was crucified
13. What two scholars saw little point in using reason to find God, stating that "either God is a mystery or he is nothing at all"?
Walter Stace and Rudolph Otto
Walter Stace and William James
Rudolph Otto and William James
Walter White and William James
14. Religious experience has value to many, including someone whose experience confirmed and deepened his faith. Hid vision in Gensis 15:6 was foundational in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Who?
Abraham
Matthew
Paul
Mohammad
15. "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory." - Isaiah 6:3. Who gave the call of Isaiah as an example for a numinous experience?
Jesus Christ
Joan of Arc
Rudolph Otto
William James
16. Who rejected the idea that God's existence could be proven, and focused on the probability of his existence? Religious experiences increased probability arguments by over 50%?
Hick
Swinburne
Otto
James
17. What are two examples of corporeal visions? (they were private, both accompanied by voices and light, corporeal, auditory and had religious significance)
Beatrice and Pharoah
Joan of Arc and Bernadette
Pharoah's dream and Joseph's dream
Beatrice and Jane of Arc
18. If someone is a past liar (affects testimony), claim beyond possibility (credulity), difficult to show God's presence (credulity and testimony), others eg Hildegard's migraines (credulity and testimony). What are all of the above
Special considerations that Swinburne mentions, exceptions to his credulity and testimony principles
When we should believe what people say, they're human and at their most honest
19. What is an example of an intellectual vision, where the individual saw Jesus "as he really was"?
St Teresa of Avila
Joseph, Jesus' father
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
Joan of Arc
20. What is Swinburne's principle of credulity?
Believing people's personal experiences, how things seem to someone is how they were
Not believing someone because they're liars, and often mistaken
