Religious Experience

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1. What type of vision has no image, yet people claim to 'see things how they really are'? The mystical visions are ineffable, enlighten the soul and are hard to understand.

  • Intellectual
  • Imaginative
  • Corporeal
  • Mystic
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2. 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

3. What are two examples of imaginative visions? (dream, vivid, illuminates soul, affects victim)

  • Pharoah's dream and Josephs dream
  • Josephine's dream and Phil's dream
  • Joan of Arc and Bernadette
  • Bernadette and Pharoah's dream

4. How does Otto summarise numinous feelings? (fearful and attractive mystery, numinous feelings are impossible to stop/prevent, fear, fascination...)

  • Fascinatias et mysterio tremor
  • Mysterium tremendum et fascinans
  • Mysterio tremememe
  • Corporeal visions

5. What is Swinburne's principle of credulity?

  • People are reliable
  • Believing people's personal experiences, how things seem to someone is how they were
  • Not believing someone because they're liars, and often mistaken
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