Religious Studies A Level: Paper 1 Philosophy of Religion & Ethics Final Exam Solved Correctly.
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What are the 3 types of religious experience? - Answer Visions, numinous experiences and mystical experiences
How many categories did St Augustine classify visions into? - Answer 3
What are Augustine's 3 categories of visions? - Answer Corporeal, imaginative & intellectual
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Religious Studies A Level: Paper 1
Philosophy of Religion & Ethics Final
Exam Solved Correctly.
What are the 3 types of religious experience? - Answer Visions, numinous experiences and mystical
experiences
How many categories did St Augustine classify visions into? - Answer 3
What are Augustine's 3 categories of visions? - Answer Corporeal, imaginative & intellectual
What is an example of a corporeal vision? - Answer The 18 visions of Mary that Bernadette of Lourdes
experienced
What is a corporeal vision? - Answer Where the visionary sees the figure/object in the same way as
someone who see a chair - there are empirical in that supernatural experiences are mediated through
physical senses
What is an imaginative vision? - Answer Visions which are mediated through 'the mind's eye' - not
through physical sight (often form of dreams)
Give an example of an imaginative vision? - Answer Joseph's dream - he was told that Mary was
pregnant (through the Holy Spirit) and that he should marry her
What is an intellectual vision? - Answer Where there is no image - but the subject claims to 'see' things
as they really are - they enlighten the soul
Intellectual visions are _____________ visions. - Answer mystical
Why are intellectual visions hard to understand/ - Answer Because they defy description
, Give an example of a mystic who frequently experienced intellectual visions? - Answer Teresa of Ávila
Mysterium - Answer Refers to something far removed from humanity that can be experienced but not
understood - elicits a response of awe & wonder
Tremendum - Answer Refers to the fearsome experience of God's overwhelming majesty & engery
What does tremendum create? - Answer A sense of human nothingness & sinfulness - consequently a
dependence on God
Fascinans - Answer the compulsive & attractive nature of the experience creates the desire for a
relationship with God (despite its fearful nature)
What does the fascinans create? - Answer An awareness of the need for salvation
What was the title of Otto's book on the nature of religious experience? - Answer 'The Idea of the
Holy'''
What does the word 'holy' mean? - Answer An adjective meaning 'other than'/'separate from' it
expresses the absolute distinctness of God from the universe
What is an experience of the numinous? - Answer Where a presence & reality cannot be understood
with the senses or intellect; it is a sense of the holy.
Name the example Otto gave of numinous experience. - Answer The call of Isaiah (Isaiah 6:1-8)
What were the key ideas of Otto's thinking about numinous experiences? - Answer - It is an experience
that is the basis of all genuine religion
- It is a non-rational & unique form of experience, totally outside our everyday experience
- It is a sense of the wholly other
- The emphasis is on God's transcendence
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