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Religious Experience
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- 1Rudolph Otto (1869-1937)A philosopher who described religious experience
- 2The idea of the Holy (1917)Otto's book
- 3NuminousOtto's word for the sacred or holy in a religious experience
- 4Jonathon WebberA contemporary philosopher who divides religious experiences into 3 groups
- 5William James (1842-1910)A philosopher and psychologist who examined and described religious experience
- 6IneffableOverwhelmingly powerful and impossible to put fully into words
- 7NoeticProvides knowledge/contains insights, but through intuition or inner illumination
- 8A prioriIndependent of sense experience
- 9A posterioriDependent on sense experience
- 10William AlstonA contemporary philosopher who examined and described religious experience
- 11Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)Once wrote when a man tells me that God spoke to him in a dream, this "is no more to say he dreamed that God spokes to him
- 12Richard SwinburneA contemporary philosopher who examined and described religious experience
- 13The Existence of God (Oxford 1979)Swinburne's book. Contains the Principles of Testimony and Credulity
- 14The Principle of CredulityStates how things seem is usually how they are
- 15The Principle of TestimonyStates that in the absence of reasons to think the contrary, we usually accept the testimony of others
- 16Peter VardyA contemporary critic of Swinburne
- 17The Puzzle of God (Fount 1995)Vardy's book
- 18William of Ockham (1285- 1347)Invented Ockham's razor
- 19Ockham's razorA method of choosing between arguments or positions. States that "entities should not be multiplied needlessly"
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