Numinous experiences
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- Created on: 23-05-18 19:30
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- Numinous Experiences - Otto
- Mysterium tremendum at fascinans
- Mysterium
- Wholly other - totally outside our normal experience
- Fascination - causes the subject to become 'caught up in it'
- Tremendum
- Awefulness - inspiring awe
- Overpoweringness - inspires a feeling of humility
- Energy / Urgency - an impression of immense vigour
- Most accept fascinans is not an inherent part of Otto's work
- Mysterium
- What makes numinous experiences religious?
- A mysterious quality
- A recognition that God is incomprehensible, that God can be met and his work seen, and yet that God can never be captured, fully understood or described
- God being recognised as ultimate importance
- God has a quality that is both attractive & dangerous
- There's a sense of privilege, but also a feeling that God cannot be controlled
- A mysterious quality
- Numinous
- Common factor to all religious experience
- 'The deepest and most fundamental element in all strong and sincerely felt religious emotion'
- Latin - numen - divinity
- Wholly other
- Sense of awe & wonder
- awe-inspiring holiness
- Ordinary language could not do justice to religious experience, because it is unlike any other within our sense perception
- Example
- Moses at the burning bush
- Simon Peter shows this deep conviction of unworthiness and the need to be cleansed - 'go away from me Lord, I am a sinful man'
- Mysterium tremendum at fascinans
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