Religious Experience

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1. What happened to mother julian of Norwich?

  • She was carted off to a mental asylum.
  • While ill received 16 showings. An uneducated woman rendered insightful on her evaluations of showings
  • While caring for her children, saw a feather land on a bench outside that her husband used to occupy.
  • A woman who claimed that she had a near death experience while ill, where she was lifted up in Gods hands.
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2. Caroline Franks Davis in 'The evidential force of religious experience' says an awareness experience is...

  • The same as a Quasi sensory experience.
  • Seeing gods work in the world
  • Being aware of Gods presence
  • Realising there is no God

3. What common themes did Andrew Greeley find when surveying USA testimonies of corporate experience?

  • Deep inner peace, certainty that everything would turn out for the better, charitable emotions, a belief in love, joy and emotional intensity
  • Hysteria, screaming, laughter, excessive movement, fainting and general mass psychological group effect
  • Hate for humankind, disapproval of politicians, disappointment in human sin, prayers for forgiveness
  • None

4. What is a revelatory experience?

  • Direct divine self disclosure, knowledge received
  • Prophecy of doomsday revealed
  • Regeneration
  • Indirect self disclosure

5. 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
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