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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which are examples of conversion experiences? (2/4)
The Toronto Blessing
Guru Nanak
Cat Stevens
Teresa of Avila
Which is NOT one of William James' characteristics of religious experience?
Immanence
Ineffability
Transience
Noetic Quality
Who supported religious experience through his principles of credulity and testimony?
Richard Dawkins
David Hay
William James
Richard Swinburne
Which are examples of corporate experiences? (2/4)
The Buddha
The children of Medjugorje
The Toronto Blessing
St Paul
Who said “If you eat too little, you see visions; and if you drink too much, you see snakes” ?
David Hume
Richard Dawkins
Bertrand Russell
Sigmund Freud
What did William James claim was required for religious experiences to be 'valid'?
Scientific evidence
Positive effects on the individual
More than one witness
Biblical support
According to David Hay around what percentage of people have had some kind of religious experience?
20%
30%
7%
50%
Who coined the term 'peak experiences' to suggest that religious experiences are not special or unique to human beings?
Maslow
Freud
Hume
Mackie
Which phrases did Rudolf Otto put forward to describe religious experiences? (2/4)
Numinous
Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans
Passivity
Transcendent
According to Freud religious experiences are hallucinations caused by ... (2/4)
A lack of sleep
Subconscious desires
A virus of the mind
Neuroses
Which theodicy focuses on the original sin and the fall of man as an explanation for evil and suffering?
Augustinian theodicy
Irenaean theodicy
Which theodicy is soul-making rather than soul-deciding?
Augustinian theodicy
Irenaean theodicy
What does Augustine mean when he claims that evil is a privation?
Evil is a private matter
Evil was created to help us grow as people
Evil is the result of something originally good 'going wrong'
Evil was created by Satan rather than God
According to Augustine which was NOT a result of the Fall?
Punishment for all humanity
The pains of childbirth for women
Disorder and disruption which brought about natural evils
Humans are more able to grow towards God's likeness
What do Augustine and Irenaeus have in common?
They both blame humans for evil in the world
They see evil as instrumentally good
Their ideas are both based in Genesis
They both claim that God's goodness cannot be justified
What does Hick's concept of Universal Salvation mean?
Our lives are all predestined
Everyone who has faith in Christ goes to heaven
Everyone has the opportunity to develop their soul further after death to get to heaven
No one goes to heaven
According to Irenaeus why did God send Jesus to earth?
To help guide humanity towards perfection
To save us from our sins
To judge us for our sins
To remove all evil and suffering
According to Irenaeus if we are made in God's image why are we not perfect?
Because ready-made perfection is not possible
Because God is not perfect
Because God does not want us to reach perfection
Because God wants us to suffer
What does 'soul-deciding' mean?
We decide to accept evil and suffering
We decide whether to accept Jesus in order to be saved
We decide what we do with our free will
We decide to grow towards God's likeness
According to Augustine, free will led to the original sin, so why did God give us free will?
Because God cannot create beings which are not free
Because God enjoys watching us make free decisions
Because otherwise we would not be capable of a free relationship with God
Because God wanted to test our faith
