numinosity Archives - The Art of Creative Writing https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/tag/numinosity/ Your muse is live in the city and the bush Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:31:01 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-Seagull-Ascent-2-32x32.jpg numinosity Archives - The Art of Creative Writing https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/tag/numinosity/ 32 32 Have You Ever Experienced The “Numen”? https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/have-you-ever-experienced-the-numen/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 03:03:27 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=19266 The reason people choose atheism rather than belief or agnosticism, may simply be that professed atheists have not experienced, at least in this lifetime, the “numen” (adj. “numinous”). See meaning below. The terms were popularized by the German theologian Rudolf Otto in his influential 1917 German book Das Heilige, which appeared in English as The […]

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