Evaluating Religious Experience

Question 1

what strengthens swinburne’s principle of testimony?

Answer 1

its use in scientific communities

Question 2

name two other strengths of religious experience

Answer 2

we trust our senses ordinarily

the catholic church checks every reported ‘miracle’ rigourously

Question 3

explain how the sexual imagery in theresa of avila’s account of the angel suggests phsycological causes?

Answer 3

a freudian analysis of this account suggests the angel is a manifestation of her repressed sexual desires and is therefore a product of her own mind