Visions

• Strengths of visions

  Can be understood in a realist way, which means that they show God really acting in the world
• Strengths of visions


  They can also be understood in an anti-realist way, overcoming the issue of realist miracles being hard to realist
• Strengths of visions

  They are clearly powerful because of how they change lives e.g. Mother Julian of Norwich
• Weaknesses of visions

  Non-verifiable as they are not universal, there is no vision that everyone has
• Weaknesses of visions

  Hick's "epistemic distance" is undermined if God and holy beings do appear in the world
• Weaknesses of visions

  Why do visions only occur for some and not others?
• Weaknesses of visions

  Visions could be a hoax, lie, misunderstanding or trich of the light - Occam's Razor - is a religious vision the most likely explanation