Il sacro

مقدمه: کانت کانت می گفت انسان مادۀ اولیۀ دانش خودش رو از بیرون دریافت می کنه. اما این ماده خیلی بی شکل تر و مبهم تر از اونه که قابل درک باشه. این ذهن انسانه که میاد به این مادۀ بی شکل، شکل و فرم می ده، سعی می کنه توی قالب های مفهومی خودش جاش بده، و قابل درکش کنه. مثلاً ذهن زمان و مکان رو اضافه می کنه Leggi tutto

The thesis of this book is that a sense of God's presence, with its attendant emotions of sacredness, wonderment and awe, is the fundamental starting point of genuine religion. Everything else -- doctrine, ritual and theological speculation -- are reliant upon, and derived from this experience. Otto Leggi tutto

Otto's use of Kant's notion of the sublime to designate the Holy is very appealing at first. However, the sublime in Kant remains in the subjective category. What is sublime in the final analysis in Kant is human rationality (the power of reason) that overcomes and surpasses the uncontainable: the i Leggi tutto

For one who is more than tired of Systematic Theology which forces God into a box made by man and that you have to be either Calvinist or Armenian when I guess I could be just a Christian who knows there is a third category... This book looks into the transcendent reality of Father, His Only Son and Leggi tutto

يُعد كتاب رودلف أوتو "المقدس" أو "فكرة القدسي" واحد من أهم الكتب في علم الأديان لعدد من الأسباب، أولها هو المنهج اللي استخدمه أوتو، الكتاب يعتبر فكرته في عنوانه الفرعي تقصي عن العامل غير العقلاني في المقدس وعلاقته بالعامل العقلاني، وأهميته تكمن في إنه تقصي فنومنولوجي بامتياز. روجيه كايو كان أعتبر الك Leggi tutto

This was assigned reading for Paul Schaick's Philosophy of Religion course at Grinnell College in Iowa. Given the very little attention paid to it in class, I've always presumed he was required to include the text in the syllabus. In any case, I read it very quickly and wasn't impressed. The class i Leggi tutto

Old school theology book. One more famous study trying to proove that there is an a priori religious impulsion. Of course it cann't be based on reason. A renewal of irrationalistic stream inside theology, in the time of Bergson, Dada, Charles Fort, Freud, First World War. An effort to establish a br Leggi tutto

I enjoyed the unfolding of Jungian analysis, the concepts of holy terror and awe, and above all, the feeling of absolute sincerity. This wasn't a book of flowery nonsense, nor was it remotely a self-help book. I believe I'll be thinking about it for years down the line and appreciate a few of the nu Leggi tutto

Wissenschaftsgeschichtlich bedeutend, gleichwohl ein merkwürdiges Werk. Otto dekonstruiert das alltagssprachliche Verständnis des Begriffes „heilig“ als etwas prinzipiell Gutes, ethisch hochwertiges, indem er nachweist, dass dessen Ursprung im „Numinosen“, etwas rational Unerklärbaren liegt, dessen E Leggi tutto