Sentences with word «numinous»

Rudolf Otto's classic study finds in numinous experience a combination of fascination and dread.

That Dragon, Cancer is an «experience» type game that was made by Numinous Games.

The natural world was sacred, along with its original denizens (animals, Pacific Coast Indians, etc.); Graves famously invested his birds with numinous symbolism; and Callahan — who worked in a fire lookout during the war — would depict mountains throughout his career.

Gardner supposes, just for the fun of it, that the number five has a particularly numinous quality, and then imagines that he opens the World Almanac to the entry on the Washington Monument.

However, he replaces the blocks of text with colors and he tried to make these blocks of color as sublime and numinous as the words of the Torah.

My expectations for numinous experiences seem to have taken a back seat... I'd like to say I have a softened heart and an open mind, but do I really?

As Berry makes clear, Christians have often failed to acknowledge the spirituality and numinous presence of the earth.

In each segment one question is asked and answered, including topics like the «Bad Painting» show, her first exhibition and numinous moments.

«Here is a sentence I did not expect to write: The film's portrayal of the otherworldly Mrs. Ws — Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs.. Who and Mrs. Which — makes the depiction of the Holy Trinity in The Shack profound and numinous by comparison.»

Moreover, in The Divine Milieu, Teilhard reveals that a religious life which would respond to the death of God can not direct its prayer or meditation to a transcendent or numinous realm, but instead must open itself to a divine «center» that fills the whole body of the cosmos, and a «center» that has no existence apart from the movement of the cosmos itself.

Experience is translated into thought and discourse; definitions and propositions delimit numinous reality.

Hashimoto uses traditional kite - making materials and techniques to create singular, modular units collectively arranged into numinous, monumental installations and smaller, woven, three - dimensional wall pieces.

These gods had existed among the Greeks, as among all primitive and archaic peoples, as numinous products of unconscious processes.

I've never heard of them being called numinous experiences before but I've had many including and after my conversion experience in the late 80's.

Instead, in a manner that sounds hopelessly outdated in our era of digitized surrogacy, their subtle numinous atmospheres and gradations can be gleaned only through firsthand experience.

More important, no person in any literature is like the New Testament figure of Jesus: as real as Socrates, «yet also numinous, lit from a light from beyond the world, a god.»

God's historical activity tends increasingly to be seen as a kind of past dispensation; and the presence of God in the congregation both past and contemporary is represented with an increasingly numinous aspect.

David, it's good to remember numinous things that I can not explain.

Indeed, the affective quality of the material forms of the cult was heightened by legislation that helped it acquire almost numinous associations.

The gods were conceived as visual objects having excellence in themselves, an excellence that inspired interest and admiration rather than numinous terror or the expectation of interference in the practical affairs of life.

At its inceptive and most basic level religion is unpredicated — a direct experience, often numinous and ineffable, but in all cases utterly individual.

Every being had its own divine, numinous subjectivity, its self, its center, its unique identity.

The opaqueness is in our understanding of the earth, not in the earth's structure which expresses an abiding numinous presence.

It may be due to nurture as much as nature, but lofty, light - filled basilicas feel numinous to us — and their functionality, in eliciting a «religious» response, surely justifies St. Thomas» traditional form.

Despite its minor flaws, St. Thomas Aquinas is an inspiring and transcendent design — one that may encourage ecclesiastical architects to save spolia from the wrecking ball and bring the best of historical architecture to bear on more such numinous houses of worship.

Prior to this time, the children have always considered the kachina figures to be magical beings bearing gifts or frightening them with numinous wonder.

As he sarcastically noted, if theology only amounts to being a taxonomic catalogue of numinous sentiments, it would be unreasonable to demand a theological chair in a university, just as it would to demand a chair «for fine feeling, sense of honor, patriotism, gratitude, maternal affection, or good companionship, proposals which would be simply unmeaning.»

I am not sure I trust those kind of numinous happenings any longer... I'd like to though.

Western Europe is positively numinous with divine substance compared to us, and even the Communist world has a kind of spiritual substance and vitality that we are said to lack.

His theory was woven from numinous words of wisdom: warped space, the fourth dimension, bending time.

Numinous objects in the movie signify the pre-gothic (mushrooms, the dirt from which they are pulled) and the post-gothic (Woodcock's car, a purple Bristol sedan, possibly a 1955 405, a speed demon of almost science - fictional dimensions).

It is mornings like these: Opening your eyes to nothing but seamless sky for day after day; a pale, numinous void that for one fleeting instant when you first awake, seems to suck you upward, out of yourself, out of your body.

Our sweet stretch of numinous night?

OUYA Publishing previously served as a publishing promotional partner and helped in funding Numinous Games» «That Dragon, Cancer,» which released on January 12, 2016, for Razer Forge TV and Steam.

At the Garboushian Gallery in Beverly Hills Seery showed several large new canvases (that seemed larger due to the gallery's own compressed size) in which recur the saturated color, numinous composition, and graceful but urgent gesturality that drove his earlier work.

Twenty - six numinous beings form Dan Perfect's 2009 Dæmonology series on view at Karsten Schubert.

It is a shame that Olivier Castel, the artist behind this clever, witty and ultimately numinous work, chooses to remain partially obscured by the pseudonym of Côme Ciment.