Introduction: Fierce goddesses of South Asia
Rudolf Otto's classic study, The Idea of the Holy, was one of the earliest modern attempts to discuss western notions of the divine in the context of experiences that involve fearful, frightening, and dangerous supernatural encounters. Alas, his insights have remained - in both the best and the...
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2012
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Nidān
Year: 2012, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: I-III |
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| Summary: | Rudolf Otto's classic study, The Idea of the Holy, was one of the earliest modern attempts to discuss western notions of the divine in the context of experiences that involve fearful, frightening, and dangerous supernatural encounters. Alas, his insights have remained - in both the best and the worst sense of the term - academic. Western theology's preoccupation with a consistent monotheism has generally preferred not to engage the problem of theodicy by talking about frightening or frightful deities. In the West, a deity may occasionally come across as fierce, but cannot be fierce essentially. If the divine is singular, the divine must be good. Evil, then, comes not from any divine source. It emerges from human waywardness and disobedience. |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2012.1 |