Sentences with phrase «religious experiences»

These experiences inform doctrine and ritual and are seemingly enshrined within the institutional church that developed around the prophet — a church that all too often then becomes inimical to the same religious experiences that birthed it.

The black church has often focused on community uplift and centered their religious experiences in the story of the Exodus.

In Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences, social psychologist Abraham Maslow noted how the great religions of the world developed around the religious experiences of the prophet and his or her early followers.

In Assemblies of God churches there still are those who pursue strong religious experiences and desire the expression of the full range of the charismata.

But as sociologist Peter Berger noted some years ago, religious experiences, whatever else they are, are institutionally dangerous.

These religious experiences are not narcissistic expressions serving little communal purpose; they provide both the motivation and the basis for outreach that helps the churches grow.

Sociologist Margaret Poloma believes the key to this growth has been that AG churches offer intense religious experiences.

These and subsequent «heresies» made leaders somewhat wary of unbridled religious experiences and often led them to discourage the use of some of the gifts of the Spirit.

Some news services announced that scientists had discovered the source of religious experiences.

Those who have had more religious experiences are more likely to invite nonmembers or inactive members to church, offer transportation to church services, invite neighbor children to church and directly witness to their faith.

Recent expansions of curricular materials, in addition to the sexuality unit, have moved into situational ethics, cultural anthropology, and a very open exploration of biblical materials and works of religious experiences.

Without his putting himself in a religious frame of mind, creating for himself religious experiences, awakening within himself a so - called natural consciousness of God, thus without his being compelled to adopt forms of consciousness which he can no longer recapture, he must be encountered in his life, which has become secular, by the good news from the Lord of the world, who has committed himself in the man Jesus of Nazareth to the world and the secularity of the stable and the gallows («without the camp» of religion, Hebrews 13:13) 15

So why do people with religious experiences assert that their feelings of God's presence are valid and believable, but when another person who has never experienced God admits this, they are told that they...

Religious experiences which can not be communicated can not be humanly important, except perhaps to the one who undergoes them.

All of these and similar matters must be considered only in the light of the fundamental religious experiences themselves.

In contrast with this experience, which is universal and important but not of central or ultimate importance, the experiences described in the next part of this book as defining religious experiences are involved in and illustrated by every form of human activity including the seeking for food and the appreciation of art.

We are not reading the New Testament to learn the «theology of Paul,» even if that were available to us; rather; we are attempting to get at the religious experiences and convictions that generated this literature and gave it shape.

Religious experiences can not be measured by brain activities alone.

Thus it acknowledges with the apophatic tradition that we really do not know the inner being of divine reality; the hints and clues we have of the way things are, whether we call them religious experiences, revelation, or whatever, are too fragile, too little (and often too negative) for heavy metaphysical claims.

This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

So he attended Group meetings and worked with alcoholics at the Calvary Mission, telling about his religious experiences and trying to induce it in them.

He was the only explanation for how the world came to be, how people managed to be good to one another, how believers had religious experiences, how things always worked together for good, how the Bible spoke to me, how the day after I prayed for this or that I just happened to received this or that.

Page 1 results have religious experiences of different religions.

It discusses some research relating «magic mushrooms» to religious experiences.

They resort to boasting about their ecstatic religious experiences to boost their image further.

At any rate if you change the magnetic field around someone's temporal lobe it produces religious experiences, so when someone is having an experience, what is causing it?

BillyD said: «ER, you appear to be simplistic in your reduction of the question and in error regarding the MRI signatures that have been measured in people having in depth religious experiences.

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.»

Discussions of miracles and religious experiences are so brief as to leave many unanswered questions.

Are feelings and religious experiences «real» or is what is real something you can only see with the naked eye or in a microscope?

The vast divisions and endless squabbling among humanity's many religions show clearly that religious experiences do not reflect a single, unchanging reality.

Through their embrace of religious pluralism and more universal mystical religious experiences, liberal Protestants imperiled their own institutional strength but persuaded many Americans of the value of their ideas.

It was a near - religious experience for me.

«The idea of getting to hang out with [Wild Turkey's] Jimmy Russell — when you look at people's faces, it's like a religious experience,» Gregory says.

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.

The New Frontier of Religion and Science: Religious Experience, Neuroscience and the Transcendent (2006)

His theory is that the sensation described as «having a religious experience» is merely a side effect of our bicameral brain's feverish activities.

Despite being a scornful sceptic, he actually went on to have a religious experience.

Being religious motivates because u r asked to search for truth to confirm religious experience.

Whatever a «chilling vein» might be, The Kingdom of Matthias is a pleasantly readable tale of a minor spasm of fanaticism at the farthest margins of the American religious experience.

David Foster Wallace called watching Federer a religious experience.

In his dustjacket recommendation, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. says this book «opens up a chilling vein of continuity in the American religious experience.»

I was at the U2 concert in Philly last week and it occured to me, it was like a religious experience.

The religious experience in the movement is more experiential, rather than based in intellectual expression.

I wrote, «Feeling great after confession is probably the most widespread experience in Catholicism, a religion not founded on religious experience as such.»

Something crucial drops out of our religious experience when we make the theological turn to experience.

On November 29, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, secretary of state, wrote to Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan, the chief organizer of the letter of the 138, on behalf of the pope: «Common ground allows us to base dialogue on effective respect for the dignity of every human person, on objective knowledge of the religion of the other, on the sharing of religious experience, and, finally, on common commitment to promoting mutual respect and acceptance among the younger generation.

Feeling great after confession is probably the most widespread experience in Catholicism, a religion not founded on religious experience as such.»

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.