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Numinous (pronounced /nuːmɨnəs, njuːmɨnəs/ ) (from the Classical Latin numen ) is an English adjective describing the power or presence of a divinity. The word was popularised in the early tw...
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Rudolf Otto (September 25 1869–6 March 1937) was an eminent German Lutheran theologian and scholar of comparative religion. Born in Peine near Hanover, Otto attended the Gymnasium Andreanum in Hildes...
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C.S. Lewis's illustration makes clear the nature of numinous dread and its difference from ordinary fear: Suppose you were told that there was a tiger in the next room: you would know that you were in danger and would probably feel fear.
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Unlike nearly all other influential thinkers and writers within Christian history, C. S. Lewis is not known for his reformation of or separation from the popular religious beliefs. Instead, he is known for defining, defending, and uniting the community of Christendom on what it "merely" (or in his own term "purely") is.
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C. S. Lewis was famously opposed to movies, though I must confess I could not find anywhere, where he addressed the subject. There is no entry for "cinema" or "film" or "movie" in the indexes of either the Hooper edition of his letters or the new biography by Alan Jacobs, entitled The Narnian.
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The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in.C.S. Lewis, ... In a memorable example, when explaining the meaning of 'numinous' Lewis asked the reader to suppose they had been told there was a tiger in the next room: "you would probably feel fear". If, however,
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Otto formed the word numinous from numen, in a manner analogous to the derivation of ominous from omen ... Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist....
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In the process of writing the Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis gradually expanded the breadth and scope of his literary ambitions. What was foreseen ... Lewis quickly noted the numinous awe in which the other characters held him. Also, it was not lost on him that the lion was a recurrent Biblical symbol for the Christ.
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Buy The Book by Nathan Jensen ... "The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys..." ... "The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation."
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