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Advantages
- Definition of a Numinous experiences - 'a sense of awe and wonder that a person may experience in the presence of God, e.g. inside a church.'
- Usually a sign that God is bigger than us, or looking at the world around us.
- Rudolf Otto; Das Heilge, said that almost everyone has a feeling of the divine, he described God as the 'wholly other'.
- Religion must derive from something separate from us.
- Mysterium Tremendum et Facinans = The experience cannot be explained, the awe and terror in which we feel, we have a strange feeling towards it.
- Soren Kirekegaard = The only way God is known is through a leap of faith, it is like two worlds the relationship between man and God. We cannot prove that God is exists but make a 'leap of faith'.
- Fredrick Schleriermacher - Religious experiences are emotional, they are not the numinous but a dependence of the divine. This is at the heart of religion, Theology occurs when we reflect on these experiences.
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Disadvantages
- This is not capable of being true of false (not verifiable)
- How do we know awe and wonder is related to the divine.
- Buber (against Otto) - Stressed the existence or a relationship without the need for the numinous.
- I-It = viewing things as phenomena.
- I - Thou =Taking a relationship further by 'probing deeper'.
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