Characteristic Features of the Christian Religious Experience – Reflection
Characteristic Features of the Christian Religious Experience – Reflection

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents an attempt to discuss in more detail the question of understanding of religious experience in the context of the Christian religion, as well as to show its characteristic extraordinary features. They refer both to a person’s internal and external world connected with this experience and include: experience of a feeling of unity with the world and God, a feeling of inner subjectivity of material things, states of losing track of time and space and an ability of transcendence of time and place, a conviction that the experienced states are real, a feeling of inexpressibility of what one experiences, and positive affectivity. Further characteristics also comprise: compliance of the religious input received during religious experience with the Bible, a harmony of internal and external life, a humble attitude, and activeness in a religious community. The paper also presents the role of those characteristics and their contribution to the process of a human being’s religious development.

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