EXILED*

• C. S Lewis

  meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning because we prefix to them 2 other words 
• Friedrich Schleiermacher 

  god can know us as close friends, knows us = he knows what we will do without forcing us
• Kant

  experience fit in own understanding of the world
• Flew

  10 flawed arguments to not make a good one, leaking buckets (Caroline Frank Davis, stack the buckets so homes overlap
• Kierkegaard

  • faith is a miracle
  • religious experience is a leap of faith
• Schleiermacher

  • agrees with Otto
  • religious experience = primarily emotions which are deeper than reason
  • not actually numinous, the theology comes after within own framework
• Ninian Smart

  • religious experience has its own logic
  • we are drawn towards God
  • Otto is correct to say we cannot reduce religious language to other forms of language
• St. Paul

  • saw Jesus on the road to Damascus
  • he was blind and didn’t eat/drink for 3 days