“And 'the holy' will be, in Dr. Otto's language, a complex category of the 'numinous' and the 'moral', or, in one of his favourite metaphors, a fabric in which we have the non-rational numinous experience as the woof and the rational and ethical as the warp.”
Quotes by Rudolf Otto
“A characteristic common to all types of mysticism is the Identification, in different degrees of completeness, of the personal self with the transcendent Reality.”
“Genuine divination, in short, has nothing whatever to do with natural law or the relation or lack of relation to it of something experienced. It is not concerned at all with the way in which the phenomenon—be it event, person, or thing—came into existence, but with what it”
Rudolf OttoRudolf Otto was a prominent German Lutheran theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist whose work significantly shaped the study of religion in the early twentieth century. He is best known ...