Religious experience
an encounter with the divine- variously of ineffability, noetic, transience, passivity.
Religious experience types
conversion, prayer, meditation, mysticism, numinous.
Propositional faith and revelation:
In this view, faith is seen as acceptance of truths revealed by God, as propositions to be accepted. Such truths might be the words of scripture, the Creeds, church doctrines or the Confessions of the Reformers. Sometimes referred to as ‘Belief that …(x is a true proposition).’
Objective
not influenced by personal feelings or emotions
Subjective
based on or influenced by personal feelings or emotions
The principle of testimony and credulity
Swinburne's idea that we should normally accept Testimony- if we know people to be trustworthy and credulity- we should accept our own experiences