When looking at his works the relationship that mankind shares with world around us emanates through Söderberg's imagery resembling what people describe as
a religious experience as if they were within a sacred space such as a church, temple, shrine, etc..
Like the man - apes before him, Dr. Floyd is similarly awed and stirred by his first view of the alien form - it is
a religious experience as the men worshipfully gaze at the altar where the monolith stands.
We feel that he has contributed immensely to the clarification of the whole field of experience by this insistence; and that he has opened the way to a far more satisfactory interpretation of the object of
religious experience as well as to a more satisfactory scientific description of natural processes.
Many of us have been acculturated to think of
religious experience as something that is deeply personal and intensely private — something we discover or uncover.
They are interested in the diversity of
religious experience as much as in religious institutions and leadership roles.
The prophets after the Exile are of a lesser breed, and most of the authors of the period are anonymous members of the community who give expression to a wide range of
religious experience as it comes to individuals living within the framework of a religious society.
This is as true of
religious experience as of anything else.
Many Buddhists would have difficulty recognizing their own
religious experience as a form of faith in a transcendent reality.
The experience of order is thus intrinsic to
religious experience as traditionally understood.
Accordingly, Proudfoot equates Schleiermacher's description and definition of religious experience to the Varieties's overriding methodological distinction between: (1) the task of simply describing, without explanation, the religious experience, and (2) the task of defining
religious experience as noetic and as a feeling - state.
Proudfoot treats William James's Varieties of
Religious Experience as though it lies in this line of influence.
Some require their members to have a particular kind of
religious experience as evidence of the work of God in their lives.
In the main, it should be noted, process - philosophers have been quite ready to use such
religious experience as part of the data which must be taken seriously in the effort to understand the world.
Those who appealed to
religious experience as the context for speaking of God for the most part believed that this experience was testimony to a holy reality.
One who is born, for example, into a Christian group which teaches the doctrine of perfection may be expected to interpret a decisive
religious experience as the granting of perfect love by the Holy Spirit.
We define
religious experience as a confrontation by man with Ultimate Reality — for no finite or relative phenomenon is worthy of adoration, only God is.
He also comments on the speculations of cosmologists, physicists, mathematicians and philosophers, and evaluates the role of
religious experience as evidence of a non-physical reality.
To claim finality is to deny the basic religious principle implied by the experience of imperfection, and (as was shown above in connection with Church exclusiveness) to destroy the other basic elements in
religious experience as well.
However, Whitehead sees mans
religious experience as providing a stabilizing unity and teleology to an otherwise largely banal existence.
The distinguishing mark of
religious experience as opposed to descriptive generalization or conceptual insight is the inclusive generality of relationships embedded in the particular physical feelings associated with religious experience.
Some who acknowledge the inadequacy of both revelation and
religious experience as bases for belief in God affirm that God's existence is self - evident.
It is therefore important to indicate an approach to the interpretation of these ideas in the light of such an analysis of
religious experience as we are here attempting.
Maybe what I need is
a religious experience as potent as Paul's.
The more personalistic aspects of God are then treated as having inferior status in the real order of things and for
religious experience as well.
Feeling great after confession is probably the most widespread experience in Catholicism, a religion not founded on
religious experience as such.»
I wrote, «Feeling great after confession is probably the most widespread experience in Catholicism, a religion not founded on
religious experience as such.»
Narratives die hard, but when the «omnipotent central bank» narrative finally and conclusively fails, bond investors will suffer
a religious experience as the market rushes to reprice these heavily overvalued bonds.
This idea of unity is connected not only with the particular method of direct religious experience, meditation and vision but also has a bearing on logic and conceptualization even where they are wholly unrelated to
religious experiences as such.
This goes from basic problems with the argument for
Religious Experiences as proof of the existence of God (Standard) to Freud and Persinger for the A level challenge task.
Not exact matches
He brings
experience from his time
as a Saskatchewan cabinet minister and a Calgary school trustee, but his
religious connections and the accusations about allegedly politically - driven school announcements make him a lightening rod for opposition criticism.
His theory is that the sensation described
as «having a
religious experience» is merely a side effect of our bicameral brain's feverish activities.
Some use
religious terminology to describe personal
experience and belief but do not believe in any of it literally and reject all traditional notions of deity, relying upon cohesive natural law
as «god.»
Since that time, a variety of thoughts and biases have come toward an association with the label, such
as libertarians, the southern agrarians, and the
religious,
as well
as reconstructions of traditionalism (Kirk), calls for
experience and history in the place of abstract reason (Oakeshott and Scruton), and a defense of moral and intellectual virtue outside organized religion (Strauss).
Reading the account of how this professor expressed himself about the author's
experience with the dying begs the question in my mind, - How many
religious scholars and clergymen are
as truly enlightened about life, death and the nature of things
as they self - satisfyingly claim to be doctored in religion?
Religious fanatics are the source of most evil today, and to use your
experiences as some kind of support for worshipping invisible and non-existent deities does a disservice to humanity.
Although he is an Orthodox Christian, Hart is not defending the Trinity, but simply «God,»
as experienced and known by many
religious traditions.
These new expressions of faith, fed by passions of ordinary men and women, did not merely diverge from received authority; increasingly they failed even to take into account the standard theological categories that served
as guides for
religious experience and formed the common denominator of theological discussion between disputants.
I propose to show that insofar
as Whitehead holds this view, even implicitly, he reverts to a Leibnizian position which fails to do justice to
religious experience.1 I shall also suggest a way in which we can speak significantly of a temporality of God's freedom.
Religious people rejoice in these stats,
as it shows that only 3 - 5 % of people may if they do nt change not get the
experience of paradise with God.
Discussions of miracles and
religious experiences are so brief
as to leave many unanswered questions.
Theism explains everything we observe, argues Swinburne, including «the fact that there is a universe at all, that scientific laws operate within it, that it contains conscious animals and humans with very complex intricately organized bodies, that we have abundant opportunities for developing ourselves and the world,
as well
as the more particular data that humans report miracles and have
religious experiences.»
The black community in America has confronted the reality of the historical situation
as immutable, impenetrable, but this
experience has not produced passivity; it has, rather, found expression
as forms of the involuntary and transformative nature of the
religious consciousness.
By contrast, traditional philosophy tends to emasculate texts like the above, construing them
as mere anthropomorphisms, since obviously Gad can not be described in emotional and temporal terms — or so the doctrine goes, despite massive evidence of
religious experience to the contrary.
Making education contextual means recognizing that 1) theology involves responding to the living God in diverse human situations; 2) theology involves specific practices
as much
as it does
religious concepts and
experiences; and 3) theological education requires attention to personal formation and not simply the learning of specialized lore and skills.
Without the control provided by the doctrine of creation, they devalued human
experience, dismissing it
as having no positive
religious value.
But by shifting the emphasis to personal appropriation of the gospel message, they downplayed the importance of these supernatural claims about the Bible
as such and reopened the issue of the value and importance of personal
religious experience.
As the adviser to the Sikh Association at Boston University and a professor of many Muslim students, I am aware of the day - to - day discrimination these
religious minorities
experience in the United States.
In 25 years of «chronicling and ranking» the political and societal restrictions on
religious freedom
experienced by Christians worldwide, Open Doors researchers identified 2016
as the «worst year yet.»
Strahan testified that, growing up
as a young soccer fan in Germany, he didn't know it at the time, but he «was having a
religious experience.»
For,
as I suggested above, it is not primarily his or her belief or
religious experience that is at the forefront of such parables
as the Wedding Feast, the Prodigal Son, the Laborers of the Vineyard, or such stories
as those of Peter in the courtyard or Simon of Cyrene, but their lifestyle, or their belief and
experience as lived, belief incarnated.