John
You asked:
> Can I ask how you define "religious experiences"?
Well first I guess one would have to say under the MoQ it would have to
be dynamic, "direct experience prior to intellectual abstraction"
Further qualified by the definition of "religion" William James uses in
his lecture "Circumscription of the Religious Topic" where he says:
"Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbritrarily to take it, shall
mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in
their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation
to whatever they may consider the divine."
Or something like:
Religous experience is, "direct experience prior to intellectual
abstraction of individual men in their solitude, so far as they
apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider
the divine". These experiences, after intellectual abstraction, have
been variously described as feelings of , "religious" fear, love, joy,
awe,unity, and so forth.
3WD
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