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Religious Experience

The value of religious experience for the individual and the community

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Experience that founded a religious community and new movement founded on religious experience.

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How can a religious experience affirm a community's belief system?

Key term

Give an example of an experience that founded a religious community.

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How does religious experience promote a faith's value system?

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    How can a religious experience affirm a community's belief system?

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    An experience confirms in practice what the tradition teaches in doctrine. Believers take the event as evidence that their teaching describes reality.

  2. 2

    Give an example of an experience that founded a religious community.

    Model answer

    The disciples' experience at Pentecost, recorded in Acts 2, launched the earliest Christian community. Public preaching and a shared common life began from that event.

  3. 3

    How does religious experience promote a faith's value system?

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    An experience reinforces the moral demands the tradition already makes. Believers report a renewed sense that those demands come from God.

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    How does religious experience strengthen the cohesion of a community?

    Model answer

    Shared worship, pilgrimage and revival bind participants into one body. Pilgrimage to Lourdes and the ḥajj both draw millions into a common act.

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    Give an example of a new movement founded on religious experience.

    Model answer

    George Fox's inward opening in the 1640s led to the Religious Society of Friends. Revival at Azusa Street in 1906 began the Pentecostal movement.

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    How can religious experience restore an individual's faith?

    Model answer

    Doubt is often ended by an experience the believer treats as personal contact with God. Confidence returns on a basis the person did not manufacture.

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