Sacred

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Sacred

• What is Sacred? What is Holy

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Rudolf Otto

• He was born in 1869 and died in 1937
• In his work The Idea of the Holy he describes the
  mysterium tremendum

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Sacredness

• Mysterium Tremendum
• Beyond that which can be expressed except by
  action
• The sense of that which is different and greater
  than all else.
• Awefulness (dread, fear)
• Overpoweringness
• Energy or Urgency
• The Wholly Other
• Fascination