Sentences with phrase «mysterium tremendum»
The future appears to us a mysterium tremendum.
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Is it fear and awe — the mysterium tremendum — of ascending in heart with Christ to the throne of God?
When we experience the mysterious abyss of an indefinitely open future, this mysterium tremendum which is in fact the gift of a self - renouncing deity, we are tempted and usually succumb to the tendency to cauterize it with our own narrow visions of the future or of the end of history.
Although I held it in awe as being sacrosanct, possessing even an element of the mysterium tremendum, I knew that it could be manipulated by the leverage of power.
For C. S. Lewis as for Rudolf Otto, there is no approaching the Holy except as the mysterium tremendum et fascinans.
Jung's concept of «the shadow» might be worth some attention... as for fear, let us not forget Otto's «mysterium tremendum»... http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/numinous.html…
This emptiness initially strikes us as a mysterium tremendum, that is, an awe - inspiring and even terrifying abyss.
Otto spoke of the mysterium tremendum et fascinans, the mystery which evokes fear and awe, and yet also attracts and fascinates.
Such experiences as I have had at the Taj Mahal and the Dome of the Rock of the numinous were called by the theologian Rudolf Otto (1869 - 1937), in his book The Idea of the Holy, mysterium tremendum.
A Darwinii mysterium tremendum!»
Why care about this mysterium tremendum, especially now?
Third, to be open to the mysterium tremendum, especially now, can help us identify with the original Resurrection experience, that majestic and shattering sense that something radical had happened, that existence had been fundamentally altered.
The immediate awareness of the Holy, the mysterium tremendum, ecstatic participation in the Sacred: this is language he can understand and with which he can identify, as is evidenced by his first book, Oriental Mysticism and Biblical Eschatology.
The gods, at least, were real, if distorted, intimations of the mysterium tremendum, and so could inspire something like holy dread or, occasionally, holy love.
His very holiness, his mysterium tremendum, is created out of his dark solitude, where as he proclaims, «Here alone I» have written:
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«is experienced as mysterium: tremendum et fascinans.
Buddhists speak and live that vision so persuasively that, in first meeting them, Christian theologians like myself are hurled into a state of such initial confusion that it bears all the marks of an experience of the mysterium fascinans et tremendum.