Visions & Voices

Visions & Voices

1. Visions

   • An event which God or something about God is observed
   • Types of visions
     • Intellectual vision
       • An experience rather than an observation
     • Imaginative Vision
       • Visions that happen in dreams perhaps giving messages or communicating knowlege
     • Corporeal Visions
       • object or figure is externally/physically present and some kind of knowledge is gained

2. Voices

   • The communication of knowledge or a message, and the notion that the voice comes from God
   • Three features of voices
     • Revelatory
       • The voice reveals something about God
     • Disembodied
       • The voice appears to come from no particular body
     • Authoritative
       • The message communicated has God's authority
   • Evaluation
     • How do you know the voice comes from God?
       • Manic Schizophrenics can hear voices
         • Peter Sutcliffe - Yorkshire Ripper - Claims God Told him to kill Prositiutes
     • The voice could simply come from the subconscious and have a psychological explanation