Explain what is meant by the term ‘a religious experience’. (45 marks) In 1969 Alister Hardy set up the Religious Experience Research Unit (RERU) with the aim of examining the extent and nature of the religious experiences of people in the UK. The experiences recorded were quite different from other types of experiences that people had. According to Alister Hardy the religious experience ‘… usually induces in the person concerned a conviction that the everyday world is not the whole of reality;
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God by experience?” - Donovan 2 In ‘Can we know God by experience?’ Peter Donovan questions whether it is possible to have direct‚ intuitive knowledge of God. Intuition is an experiential belief characterized by its immediacy. It is direct perception or insight without any need for evidence or argument. Intuition or intuitive knowledge is the main theme of Donovan. He suggested that knowledge can be attained through intuition. Especially the claim that people who have religious experiences can gain
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CO-CURRICULAR Personally‚ I am a big proponent of students being active or in fact hyper active in co-curricular activities. In my personal opinion‚ there is a lot of value to gain from being active in such activities. A lot of soft skills would be able to be obtained through such involvements. You would be mingling with others (outside of classroom setting)‚ so you get some interactions. There will be some skill sets learning as well‚ depending on type of clubs/societies etc. For those uniformed
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When she opened the door‚ she immediately knew there was someone in her house. She asked “Is there someone?”‚ but no one answered‚ so she went to the kitchen and started making supper. While she was chopping tomatoes‚ she heard knocking upstairs. The knife fell out from her hand. She picked it up with shaking and went to the stairs. The noise was going from bathroom in the end of the hall. She turned on the lights and went straight on‚ holding the raised knife. The door was ajar. She was very frightened
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In text 1‚ demands a police officer‚ Hogan-Howe‚ to change the legislation. After Ellie’s dead‚ could hundreds of people hand out their dog to the police for a legally procedure. “As a result there are now 200 fewer illegal dangerous dogs in Merseyside”5 The animal-behavior expert‚ Victoria Stilwell‚ explains that if your dog kills someone‚ you should face jail. But she wants allow that we see all rottweilers or pit bulls as killers. She believes that the cocktail of playfully children and dogs
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characteristics of both visions and conversion experiences [30 marks] Visions and conversions are both a type of religious experience- it’s a subjective experience where an individual reports contact with a supernatural reality‚ an encounter or union with the divine‚ Religious experiences are preoccupied by extraordinary psychological state and no one can give real evidence about it. According to William James‚ a 20th century philosopher; every religious experience has four characteristics. Ineffability
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A married couple were going out for the evening and called in a teenage babysitter to take care of their three children. When she arrived they told her they probably wouldn’t be back until late‚ and that the kids were already asleep so she needn’t disturb them. The babysitter starts doing her homework while awaiting a call from her boyfriend. After awhile the phone rings. She answers it‚ but hears no one on the other end — just silence‚ then whoever it is hangs up. After a few more minutes the
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The Old Abandoned House It seemed like an ordinary day. Everything seemed to be going well‚ but little did I know something terrible was going to happen. I gazed through window which seemed to me that it was going to be a bright‚ sunny day. As hours passed‚ it got darker‚ cloudier‚ and windy. It was my parent’s anniversary that day. They went to go to dinner around 6pm and left me home with the babysitter. I hated my babysitter with every ounce of my being. She puts on a fake smile and pretends
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He stepped out into the cold‚ dark night. The air smelled fresh after the storm. He gasped as the cold air sliced through his throat‚ his breath dissipating from a cloud of steam. He wrapped himself more tightly into his black cape‚ and ventured forward into the night. The sounds of his feet crushing the pebbles underneath‚ the ravens spilling out their haunting call‚ his own breath quivering in the icy atmosphere - these noises chilled him even further. Shook his spine and froze his heart. He stopped
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Blake ’s dialectic is to be found everywhere in the Songs of Innocence and Experience - night and day‚ winter and spring‚ wilderness and Eden‚ etc. As Mitchell writes (1989:46)‚ ‘dialogue and dialectic of contraries constitute the master code of Blake ’s text’. Bass (1970:209) adds‚ ‘The total effect of Innocence and Experience is one of balanced opposites‚ each fulfilling and completing the other’. Moreover‚ according to John Beer‚ the ‘contrary states’ of the human soul are dialectic in themselves
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