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15 Cards in this Set
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Who found the common core between religious experiences?
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William James
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Define ineffible
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outside human powers of description
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Define noetic
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Giving information about God which is not otherwise available
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Define transient
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during the religious experience time may move differently, for example the experience may seem to last a long time but in fact be over very quickly
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Define passive
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The person experiencing it is not in control of the experience, it happens to them.
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Which principles did Swinburne devise?
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Credulity and Testimony
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Explain the principle of Credulity
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If one experiences a religious experience, one if inclined to believe it, unless there is a strong reason not to
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Explain the principle of testimony
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When someone tells you of a religious experience, one is inclined to believe the person unless one has clear reasons not to believe the person.
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Explain Freud's view of religious experience
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Religion is the need of a father figure, these experiences have clear parrallels to psychotic episodes and the obsessive behaviour of many of his patients
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Explain a physiological view of religious experience
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Perhaps the experiencees are suffering from some kind of physical illness, for example Saul on the road to demascus = epilepsy
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What acts as evidence against the physiological view of religious experience?
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corporate religious experience
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give an example of a corporate religious experience
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Toronto Blessing, holy laughter experienced during
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explain conversion
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involves a recognition that the current lifestyle is wrong or incomplete and a change to lifestyle to bring about a better way
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How might conversion be viewed?
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As some kind of adolescent restructuring
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Who used the word 'numinous' to mean being in the presence of awesome power?
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Rudolf Otto
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