Desire for God Flashcards
1
Q
A French Novelist that stated that religious is not animated by the sense of the sacred and by a deep earnestness to conjoin the ephemeral with the eternal.
A
Andre Malraux
2
Q
He explained that the concept of the holy or sacred as numinous or as a non-rational, non-sensory experience or feeling whose primary and immediate object is outside the self.
A
Rudolf Otto
3
Q
It means that the numinous is wholly other and entirely different from anything we experience in ordinary life.
A
Mysterium
4
Q
It provokes terror because it presents itself as overwhelming power.
A
Tremendum
5
Q
It presents itself as merciful and gracious.
A
Fascinans
