Karteikarten
Numinous experience
Karten in diesem Stapel (20)
- 1Rudolph Otto 'The idea of the holy'All religious experiences are of a numinous nature.
- 2Otto describes these as 'mysterium tremendum'. It is awe inspiring to the point of producing fear because you are in the presence of an almighty being.He also describes them as 'fascinans' - They are strangely fascinating and we are drawn into the experience.
- 3He argues that religious experiences are emotional. Believers interpret the world through their experience and the beliefs attached to it.The numinous experience reveals something about God.
- 4Although we can reflect upon what has been revealed about Go after the experience, it is ultimately inexpressible.What is revealed is on an emotional level, intellectual and theological ideas are only formed after the experience, not during it.
- 5Contradicting himself? You can't reflect on it but you understand it after?You can't reflect on it but you understand it after?
- 6'It is the emotion of a creature submerged and overwhelmed by its own nothingness. In contrast to that which is supreme above all creatures.'- we have a vast experience of nothingness, in contrast to God.
- 7Influenced by Kant- recognized God could not be known by sensory experience or logical argument.
- 8For Otto, God is 'wholly other', he is a being that is completely different and distinct to human beings.- We are unable to know God unless he chooses to reveal himself.
- 9StrengthsAllows for subjectivity - a more personal relationship.
- 10StrengthsIt makes sense to say if an experience is truly religious that it has to be an experience of the 'wholly other'.
- 11StrengthsNuminous experiences supports more religious ides of God - Christianity and omnipotence.
- 12StrengthsProvides us with a criteria for distinguishing religious experiences and other types of experiences - way of recognizing and verifying experience.
- 13StrengthsAllows an experience not to be constrained by religious language - can't describe it
- 14WeaknessesSubjectivity makes it harder to verify religious experiences.
- 15WeaknessesDoesn’t allow for a personal God.
- 16WeaknessesMany religious experiences are more likes 'union experiences' where a person has a direct awareness of our essential unity with God.
- 17WeaknessesIf it's about feelings then it's non-cognitive - meaning we cannot verify it.
- 18WeaknessesNaturalistic theory could entirely account for the feeling of numinous in terms of human beings own creativity and desire for self-transcendence.
- 19Friedrich Schliermacher -- Agreed with Otto that religious experiences are primarily emotional.
- Parts with Otto in saying that religious experiences are not numinous. The experiences are at their core feeling of absolute dependence upon the divine. - 20Friedrich Schliermacher -- It is this awareness of absolute dependence upon 'a source of power that is distant from the world' that is at the heart of religion.
- Far more personal relationship - they are connected.
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- A level Philosophy (Religious Experience) Karteikarten am Numinous experience, erstellt von Isabella Treccani-Chinelli am 14/05/2017.
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- Isabella Treccani-Chinelli
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