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“HOLY” IN RUDOLF OTTO’S PHILOSOPHY

Ivan Ševo ; Mostar

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The article is trying to condense a term “holy” in Rudolf Otto’s philosophy
emphasizing that Otto firstly explains the basic term of numinous which
can be found in all religions, especially Biblical ones, revealing two
aspects of numinous secret (“mysterium numinosum”): the scaring one
(“tremendum”) and the fascinating one (“fascinans”). What is mysterious
is not only incomprehensible because our mind in relation to mysterious
has certain insuperable limitations, but in that case we are confronted
with something completely different, what is in most cases incommensurable
to our intellectual ability.
Regarding “mysterium numinosum” the author also observes that dichotomous
aspect has been running through entire religion history. Although
divine can seem horrifying to a man, it has its attracting, admiring face.
Analyzing the term “holy” (lat. “sanctus”), Otto suggests that this term is
translated as “extraordinary”, “transcendent”. The term “holy” is very close
to the term “sublime” (“erhaben”, “augustus”). Therefore the term holy “sanctus”
symbolizes distinctiveness of numinous which has subjective value of
making happy, while the term sublime, magnificent (“augustus”) symbolizes
objective value of numinous, value which can be found in itself. The
author also defines the term “irrational”, which is considered by Otto as
an attribute of divinity which cannot be understood “clare et distincte” by
our notional instruments. It does not evade from our feeling than from
our rational thinking.

Ključne riječi

God; mystic; religion; experience; rational; irrational; numinous; mysterium numinosum; mysterium tremendum; mysterium fascinans; holy.

Hrčak ID:

229947

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/229947

Datum izdavanja:

14.12.2010.

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