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Rudolph Otto Notes
Vocabulary Terms
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God) minus its moral and rational aspects
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It is
an adjective describing the presence or power of a divinity
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It is the personal feeling of insufficiency
and impotence, a consciousness of being determined by circumstances and environment
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The feeling is an immediate and primary reference
to an object outside the self, and this object is the numinous
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This is based on the fact of being
created
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Mysterium Tremendum is an emotion that can be almost a grisly horror or shuddering or it
can be the hushed, trembling, and speechless humility of a creature in the presence of that
which is a mystery
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It is an emotion that is compared to “religious dread” or “daemonic dread”, a feeling that stirs
in the presence of the uncanny, and is relative to shuddering, where the mysterious is already
beginning to loom before the mind and touch the feelings
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can also be described as the fear of the wrath of God
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There are three components to this: awfulness (sense of dread in response to the
uncanny), overpoweringness (tremenda majestas), and energy
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Tremenda Majestas is also known as the “aweful majesty” where one feels as though they
are but dust and ashes and nothingness in comparison to God
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This is the symbolic expression of the numinous, which serves to
protect religion from being rationalized
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