Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience
In 1981, six young people in the village of Medjugorje, in what was then Yugoslavia (now Bosnia-Herzegovina), reported that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them. The Medjugorje visionaries say that Mary has returned every day since then, bringing them important messages from heaven to convey to the...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press USA- OSO
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion and science
B Experience (Religion) B Electronic books B Međugorje (Bosnia and Herzegovina)-Religious life and customs B Mary,-Blessed Virgin, Saint-Apparitions and miracles-Bosnia and Herzegovina-Medugorje B Supernatural |
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| Summary: | In 1981, six young people in the village of Medjugorje, in what was then Yugoslavia (now Bosnia-Herzegovina), reported that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them. The Medjugorje visionaries say that Mary has returned every day since then, bringing them important messages from heaven to convey to the world. Over the past three decades the Medjugorje visionaries have been subjected to extensive medical, psychological, and scientific examination, even while undergoing their visionary experiences. Daniel Klimek analyzes the scientific studies on the visionaries in juxtaposition with the major scholars and debates surrounding religious experience, and concludes that a multidisciplinary approach grants a more holistic and deeper understanding of such extraordinary religious experiences. Cover -- Half title -- Medjugorje and the Supernatural -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Silence of the Birds -- 1. The Young Woman on the Hill -- The Messages of Medjugorje -- Visions of the Afterlife -- Near-Death Experiences: A Comparative Study -- More Questions on the Afterlife: Deceased Persons and Reincarnation -- The Question of Other Religions -- Secrets of Medjugorje -- 2. Public Revelation and Private Revelation: How the Catholic Church Discerns the Supernatural -- Private Revelations and the Development of Doctrine -- Official Norms for Evaluating Apparitions or Revelations -- First Criterion of Discernment: The Visionary -- Second Criterion of Discernment: The Theological Content of the Revelation -- Third Criterion of Discernment: Spiritual Fruit and Healthy Devotion -- Testing the Religious Ecstasy -- Intervention of Competent Church Authorities -- Medjugorje and the Church -- 3. Mysticism in the Twentieth Century -- William James and the Study of Mysticism -- James's Four Marks of the Mystical State -- A Pragmatist's Approach: Discerning the Fruits of Experience -- Respecting the "More" of Religious Experiences -- Challenging the Limitations of Rationalism -- The Authority of Mystical Experiences -- Evelyn Underhill and Mysticism -- Underhill's Defining Marks of Mysticism -- Categories of Visions (Visionary Phenomena) -- Corporal Visions -- Imaginative Visions -- Intellectual Visions -- Passive Imaginary Visions -- Active Imaginary Visions -- Active Intellectual Visions -- Categories of Voices/Locutions -- Intellectual Locutions -- Imaginative Locutions -- Exterior Locutions -- Mystical Experiences and Visionary Experiences: Understanding the Nuances -- Critiques of James and Underhill -- Critiquing James: Hermeneutical Fallacies -- Critiquing Underhill: Hermeneutical Reductionism. |
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| ISBN: | 0190679212 |