Cards (7)

  • St. Augustine of Hippo classified visions into 3 categories
    • corporeal
    • imaginative
    • intellectual
  • corporeal visions are mediated through physical senses - they are empirical (verifiable by experience)
  • examples of corporeal visions:
    • Bernadette of Lourdes: 18 visions of the Virgin Mary
    • Joan of Arc: visions of angels + saints
  • imaginative visions are visions mediated through 'the minds eye', not physical sight - often take the form of dreams
  • examples of imaginative visions:
    • Pharoah/Joseph's dream
    • Joseph's dream: told to marry Mary
  • intellectual visions have no image, but the person claims to 'see' things as they really are - experience illuminates the soul
  • example of intellectual vision:
    • Teresa of Avila: visions of Jesus