Religious experience
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How does the guide define vocation?
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How does the guide define vocation?
Marriage, family life, work, or consecrated religious life among clergy, monks and nuns.
What practices does the guide list under group and individual experience?
Daily private devotions; communal prayer; service to others; stewardship, grace, evangelism and mysticism.
Through what does personal revelation come, on the guide's account?
Experience of God in the Bible, history, nature, people, the Church and Jesus — marked by adult baptism.
Why does counting work as a vocation matter?
Because a tradition that treats a job and a household as callings has decided that holiness is available in ordinary life — a point the Reformation churches pressed explicitly.
What does the guide list under meditation and worship?
Meditation and contemplation, and writers on spirituality.
What does the guide list under gender and religious experience?
The ordination of women in various denominations, and women mystics.
What point does the ordination-and-mystics pairing make?
That religious authority and office are not the same thing: in churches where women could not be ordained, some exercised great authority through recognised experience, and their writings were read by clergy.
Contrast Jewish and Christian attitudes to conversion.
Judaism discourages it and is not a missionary religion, since it is not held to be the only path to God. Christianity lists evangelism among its practices, holding that believers are saved through faith in Jesus.
What distinguishes charismatic worship as religious experience?
The expectation that the Holy Spirit acts in the gathering itself — a doctrinal position about how God acts now, expressed as a form of service.
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