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Example sentences for "religious experience"

  • This temper is not good for creating new and profound religious thought, but it is good for sampling and appreciating the "varieties of religious experience" which offer their results as guides for this and other lives.

  • Zeus embodied the theocratic idea, and Apollo the ideas of Pan-Hellenic civic unity, artistic feeling, and the more intimate ethical and religious experience.

  • In early man there is little individuality of thought or of religious experience,[210] and there is no observable difference between public and private religious worship.

  • On the other hand, the North American voluntary societies are mainly concerned with the presentation of religious ideas by the dramatization of myths, and by demanding for membership some sort of religious experience.

  • Doctrines are signposts; they are placards, index fingers, notices summing up and commending the proved essences of religious experience.

  • This appears to me a quite typical non-religious interpretation of a religious experience.

  • William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902, or in Prof.

  • The facts of religious experience are better attested, and more unobjectionable than those of any other science.

  • His faith receives these facts of religious experience as the first installments upon God's bonds, and as pledges for the payment of the remainder of his promises.

  • The Philosophy of Religious Experience, by Henry W.

  • Professor William James has a thick volume entitled "The Varieties of Religious Experience," in which he brings together a vast array of the documents which describe the religious feelings and impulses of persons in all lands and all ages.

  • The Psychology of Religious Experience: points emphasized in the discussion 92 1.

  • The Psychology of Religious Experience; and II.

  • William James, Varieties of Religious Experience, 508, finds the features belonging to all religions: 1.

  • This is James's way of defining the objects of religious experience.

  • These exercises and the various states and changes of the inner life connected with them constitute the staple of what is commonly called religious experience.

  • This is the special phase of religious experience which we profess, and for which we are called Perfectionists.

  • It made the prophets and psalmists of Israel a permanent and integral part of Christian literature--and in all these ways it became more fit to be the faith of mankind, as it deepened its hold upon the universal religious experience.

  • With these Dr William James has dealt in his Varieties of Religious Experience, showing that in them, as in "conversion," there is nothing distinctively Christian.

  • Broadly considered, William James' "Varieties of Religious Experience" was perhaps the pioneer work.

  • JAMES The greatest contribution of America to religious discussion in recent years is surely William James's Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902.

  • He differs from Newman only in lacking that which to Newman was the most indefeasible thing which he had at all, namely, religious experience.

  • What God is to us we can know simply as religious men and solely upon the basis of religious experience.


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