Rudolf Otto

1869–1937

Theologian of the numinous — the experience of the holy before doctrine names it.

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Rudolf Otto

The Idea of the Holy

Otto’s inquiry into the numinous — the encounter with the holy before any doctrine has words for it — in John W. Harvey’s translation.

282 passages1923

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The Idea of the Holy1917public domain

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These are read beside Rudolf Otto in the lesson The symbol and the sacred.

Rudolf Otto died in the twentieth century. These writers and makers did too.

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