6. Who said 'God establishes himself in the interior of the soul in such a way, that when I return to myself, it is wholly impossible for me to doubt that I have been in God and God in me'
Saint Teresa of Avila
Archbishop William temple
David Hume
Mother Julian of Norwich
7. What happened to mother julian of Norwich?
While caring for her children, saw a feather land on a bench outside that her husband used to occupy.
While ill received 16 showings. An uneducated woman rendered insightful on her evaluations of showings
A woman who claimed that she had a near death experience while ill, where she was lifted up in Gods hands.
She was carted off to a mental asylum.
8. Ludwig Wittgensteins opinion was that...
Each person views an experience differently, so all testimonies are unreliable
If God is the source, all experiences would point to him. Not other religions Gods.
Relgious experience can be interpreted in non religious ways
Experiences are the product of psychological and circumstantial factors.
9. Caroline Franks Davis in 'The evidential force of religious experience' says an awareness experience is...
The same as a Quasi sensory experience.
Realising there is no God
Seeing gods work in the world
Being aware of Gods presence
10. Who said..."when I pray, coincidences happen, when I don't, they don't"
Swinburne
Archbishop William temple
Mother Julian of Norwich
Mother Thereasa
11. Where is this quote relating to near death experience from? "The divine being of clear light will appear in whatever shape will benefit all beings"
My diary
The Tibetan book of the dead
The gospel
The bible
12. What is a dramatic conversion event?
Revelatory
Subtle interpretive experience
A direct numinous experience, a vision that offers evidence of gods wholly otherness and offers awe and wonder
A dramatic smite of sinners
13. What are the four characteristics of mystic experience William James defined?
Ineffability (feelings that defy description) noetic quality (revelation of universal truth) transciency (brief, profound experience) passivity (feeling of being overwhelmed, taken over)
Joy, regeneration, weeping and profoundness
Noetic quality, sense of divine, peace, conviction or insight
Prayers being answered, direction offered, peacefulness, verifiable through their results
14. Who said... "There is not to be found in all of history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of any such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion"
R. M. Hare
David Hume
Tillich
Dawkins
15. Who said religious experience was..."an expression of a persons psychological needs, the argument from personal experience is the one that is most convincing to those who claim to have had one. But it is the least convincing to anyone else"
Schleirmacher
Freud
Especially anyone knowledgable about psychology" Dawkins
Swinburne
16. Who said "religious experience is the feeling of an encounter followed by a special understanding of its religious significance"
Paul Tillich
Martin Buber
Edward Schleirmacher
Richard Swinburne
17. The inductive arguments uses the premises that
Experience of X indicates the reality of Y, it is possible to experience X, So Y must exist.
The human mind is unreliable, experience of God is unreliable, The possibility of God is unreliable.
18. What percentage of people have been revealed in recent empirical research to have had a religious experience?
30%
67%
40%
29%
19. Who said... "if we are gullible, we don't recognise hallucinations or lucid dreaming for what it is and we claim to have seen or heard a ghost, or an angel, or god, such visions and manifestations are certainly not good grounds for believing"
Dawkins
Flew
Hume
Adrian
20. Peter vardys view was that... (we love a bit of vardy)
It depends on presuppositions.
There is no reason not to take these experiences at face value
