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Religious Experinece (Types of experience (Indirect religious experince…

- - - - some people describe and awareness , not always seeing god
      - Knowing God in an intimate and personal way
    - - numinous- world beyond the physical and observable
      - Completely outside of our possible knoweldge
      - I-it relationship - impersonal
      - Ineffable experience
      - 'Apprehension of the wholly other' ( numinous)
  - - - Heard a voice aying 'why are you persecuting me ?'
      - Saul was blind and had no food/ drink for 3 days
      - Anias was told to help Saul, heard God telling him although he was afraid of being prosecuted
      - Anias healed Saul and he was converted
    - - Volitional
        
        want to make spiritual changes and tried to bring it about then have a profound experience and connection with God
      - Self-surrender
        
        done what thye can to develop their religion but are still sinful , thye give themselves to God
        
        Could be the work of God or the subconcious mind
  - - - Ineffable- cannot describe
      - Noetic- transfers revelations from God
      - Transient-Not permanent but effects are long-lasting
      - passive- the person was not in control of themselves so someone cannot will it to happen
  - - - May 13th 1917 they thought it was the Virgin Mary
      - Now groups gather on the 13th of eery month
      - Some claim to hae seen the sun shaking but may have been group hysteria
- - - - Ordianary experinces
        
        interpreting natural events ie natures beauty
      - Extraordinary experinces
        
        violates normal understanding ie water to wine
    - - Non-describable
        
        direct experiences beyond human words ie Teresa of Avila
      - Non-specific
        
        looking at the world from a religious perspective
      - Describable in ordinary language
        
        dreams ie joseph
  - - - Not stabbing of Harrison by Abrahams in 2001
- - - - Intellectual Vision ( in the mind)
        
        Teresa of Avila, aware Jesusu was 'at her side' but couldnt see him
      - Corporeal vision ( a physical person)
        
        St Bernadette saw the Virgin Mary and dug at her feet to discover water at Lourdes
      - Imaginative ( dream)
        
        Joseph was visited ina dream and told to trust mary
        
        Magi visited ina dream and told not to trust King Herod
  - - - diesmbodied voice
      - communicating a revelation from God
      - The voice is authoritive and passes on God 's authority
    - - St Teresa of Avila criteria
        
        Religious experience should fit with Christian teaching
        
        The expereince should leae the person feeling at peace with the world
        
        If it doesnt fit the criteria it is from the devil