Is God everywhere?
Jill Allum has been prompted to ask by the words of Rudolf Otto
Why do you suddenly get hit between the eyes? My favourite book is Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy, written in German in 1917 and translated in 1923. Here is true mysticism. Rudolf Otto coins the word ‘numinous’ from the Latin ‘numen’ – to mean that ‘awe-ful’ shudder moment when we know we are close to the ‘holy’.
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