Evaluation

Question 1

How should we understand religious experience?

Answer 1

As a union with a greater power
As a psychological effect
As a physiological effect

Question 2

Union with a greater power

Answer 2

Doesn’t merely seem to be an experience of God but actually is an experience of God but the experience is private so how can we be certain of this?

Question 3

Swinburne

Answer 3

Principle of credulity - we ought to believe that things are as they seem unless we have evidence that we are mistaken - we do this in everyday life why is it not the same for religious experiences

Question 4

William James on union with a greater power

Answer 4

Common core to religious experiences