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Apr 16, 2024 · Rudolf Otto remains one of the most influential theologians of the early 20th century. One area where he made a sizable impact was on the “fear of God” discussion. From Otto’s influence emerged the theory of Numinous Fear as a means of explaining the “fear of the gods” in the ancient world.
Rudolf Otto. Ravenio Books, 1970 - Philosophy. Since its English translation first appeared in 1923, Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy has solidified its status as a classic in the field of religious philosophy. This thought-provoking work explores the non-rational aspect of the divine and its intricate relationship with reason.
Nov 27, 2013 · Rudolf Otto grounded his concept of religion in the experience of the sacred. His perspective offered and continues to offer a major impetus for contemporary debates in theology, the philosophy of religion, religious aesthetics, and religious studies. This volume documents important insights from contemporary readings of Otto in an international perspective.
Melissa Raphael’s Rudolf Otto and the Concept of Holiness (1997) examines Otto’s thought with respect to its resources for contemporary theology; she also forwards, in another essay, an evaluative feminist appraisal of Otto’s conceptions of the numinous, mysticism, and religious experience.52 In particular, Raphael highlights the linkage ...
Nov 12, 2012 · Rudolf Otto. Rudolf Otto was a highly influential figure in the history of Religious Studies, but whether that influence was for good or not is a debatable issue. His ideas about the sui generis nature of the religious experience and of an irreductible numinous or sacred foreshadow the work of scholars such as Eliade, but proved highly divisive ...
Both author and translator make it clear that religion must accommodate both the numinous and the ethical, The Idea of the Holy (Das Heitige), which is fundamentally an inquiry into the non-rational, is a book which has established itself, since the English translation first appeared in 1923, as a classic in the field of religious philosophy.
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루돌프 오토(Rudolf Otto, 1869년 9월 25일 - 1937년 3월 6일 )는 저명한 독일 루터교 신학자, 철학 자, 비교 종교 가이다. 초기 20세기에 종교분야에서 가장 영향력있는 학자가운데 한 사람이다. 그는 세계 종교의 중심에서 논의되는 심오한 감정적 경험, 즉 뉴미너스 ...
