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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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Because the mysterium tremendum is wholly Other, i.e., is unlike anything that we have encountered or ever will encounter, it arouses in us a mental state of stupor, a "blank wonder, an astonishment that strikes us dumb, amazement absolute."
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Posted by Jared @ 6:49 pm CST ; Filed under: The Mysterium Tremendum ... Of course, I have continued blogging at a couple of other sites, but the planned break for Mysterium Tremendum had an actual purpose behind it. Unfortunately, that purpose -- to break from lit-blogging until I could call myself a published novelist --
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More Mysterium Tremendum discipleship: A Dangerous Discipleship to an Unsafe God; A Worshipful Discipleship; An Eschatological Discipleship; A Psalm 23 Discipleship; A Lord's Prayer Discipleship; And an oldie but a goodie from Thinklings: The Call to Discipleship: An Invitation to the Story;
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Otto's Mysterium Tremendum; Otto has reached the heart of the matter. He pins down this sort of experience for dissection in terms of a Latin phrase, mysterium tremendum. ... The term fascinans is indeed used by Otto, but only on a few isolated occasions and not in conjunction with mysterium tremendum. I still don't think...
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Martin Luther is easily my favorite historical figure. I read Roland Bainton's most excellent ... My favorite part of the book was the chapter on Luther's marriage to the ex-nun Katarina Von Bora who Luther helped to escape from a convent by smuggling her and a dozen or so other nuns out in beer barrels. ... On Luther's Trail...
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Rather, I propose, that our Beloved, being of compassion, intended us to look more deeply into the meanings imparted in scripture, below surface level to find our own Mysterium Tremendum.
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These issues constitute what I mean by the Mysterium Tremendum. My purpose will be to enunciate as clearly as possible what the unresolved issues are. To do this, a review of what is already known is necessary.
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'Beyond the 'Trigger Effect': A Personal Note on the Numinous Consciousness'. Postcript, Chapter V, from Rob Couteau's 'Role of the Least-aspected Planet. ... And this experience for­ever alters us: after such a revelation (mysterium tremendum = yang) and revaluation (mysterium fascinans = yin), we are no longer the same.
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Returning to work on an uninterrupted story is not like returning to work on a scholarly article. Facts, however long the scholar has left them untouched in his notebook, will still prove the same conclusions; he has only to start the engine running again. But the story is an organism: it goes on ... -- from C.S. Lewis,
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