Religious Experience Quotes Bank

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Created on: 30-03-17 22:59

FOR: what did schleiermacher describe religious experience as?

“offering a sense of the ultimate, an awareness of wholeness, a consciousness of infiniteness and finiteness, a feeling of absolute dependence and feeling of reverence, joy and a desire to belong to God.”

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FOR: what did william james say the impact of religious experiences is?

“renewed outlook on life” - causes you to think, not rationally, just intuition.

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FOR: what did richard swinburne was the purpose of religious experience?

“an omnipotent and perfectly good creator will seek to interact with human persons capable of knowing him"

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FOR: what did paul tillich describe the feeling caused by religious experiences as?

a feeling of “ultimate concern"

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AGAINST: what did davies say to suggests that religious experience for proof of God is unreliable?

"we make mistakes about reality because we fail to interpret our experiences correctly."

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Using this mnemonic: 'Ariana quietly-sang Nicki's rap in Massiveattack Remastered' state Caroline Frank Davis' 7 types of religious experiences

Awareness, Quasi-sensory, Numinous, Regenerative, Interpretative, Mystical, Revelatory.

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Using this mnemonic: 'India never-quite talked politely" state William James' 4 common feelings/factors of religious experience

Ineffability, Noetic quality, Transiency, Passivity

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Who coined the term "numinous"

Rudolf Otto

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What were Richard Swinburne's two principles? Briefly describe them

Principle of credulity: unless we have overwhelming evidence to prove otherwise, we should believe people's accounts. Principle of testimony: We can't possibly say EVERYONE's accounts are fake, some must be real.

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“renewed outlook on life” - causes you to think, not rationally, just intuition.

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FOR: what did william james say the impact of religious experiences is?

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“an omnipotent and perfectly good creator will seek to interact with human persons capable of knowing him"

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a feeling of “ultimate concern"

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"we make mistakes about reality because we fail to interpret our experiences correctly."

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