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Rudolf Otto's The Idea of the Holy 2: Comments; In the first part of this brief study of The Idea of the Holy we summarise what we take to be Otto's two most important themes: the numinous and religious progress. ... In the Summary of The Idea of the Holy, I remark in passing that it has to be significant that Eliade and...
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The Idea of the Holy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rudolph Otto's most famous work is The Idea of the Holy , published first in 1917 as Das Heilige - Über das Irrationale in der Idee des Göttlichen und sein Verhältnis zum Rationalen (The Holy ...
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Amazon.com: The Idea of the Holy (9780195002102): R. Otto, John W.
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Amazon.com: The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non Rational
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A century ago Rudolph Otto wrote The Idea of the Holy (1917, translated into English in 1923), a German work of liberal theology containing a nugget of truth. There is an experience of the transcendent, the numinous (to cite Immanuel Kant) that has a ghostly effect, the mysterium tremendum.
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Yet the content and structure of the experience also makes The Idea of the Holy' an episode in the history of the sublime-that is, in the history of a notion that has concerned both dualities, the ambivalent experience of the safer and the rendering or provoking of this experience by writing.
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