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    The feelings of awe which people feel towards God can be,... — Carmelics
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    The feelings of awe which people feel towards God can be, and often are, applied to the universe itself.

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    • 1.Rudolf Otto's framework characterises the holy or numinous on the basis of non-rational, non-sensory experience rather than objective features of the object.
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    • 2.People feel feelings of awe towards God under Otto's framework.
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    • 3.The same experiential orientation that produces awe towards God can be directed towards the universe as a whole.
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    • 1.Otto explicitly argues that the numinous requires an encounter with a being that is wholly other (totaliter aliter), possessing personal agency and will.
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    • 2.The universe, as a totality of natural processes, lacks the personal agency that Otto identifies as constitutive of the mysterium tremendum et fascinans.
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    • 3.Transferring numinous awe to the universe therefore misapplies Otto's framework by stripping the phenomenological object of its essential intentional structure.
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    • 1.William James argues in The Varieties of Religious Experience that genuine religious awe involves a felt sense of presence of a distinct, responsive personal reality beyond the self.
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    • 2.Awe directed at the universe as a whole is more accurately classified as the sublime in Kant's sense—a response to magnitude overwhelming rational comprehension—than as religious awe.
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    • 3.Conflating the Kantian sublime with religious awe collapses a distinction that tracks a real difference in intentional content and existential orientation.
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    Most straightforwardly it has been maintained that the One is holy because we feel a particular set of religious emotions towards it (Levine 1994, ch.2.2). For Rudolf Otto (1917), whatever is holy or ‘numinous’ is so characterised on the basis of our non-rational, non-sensory experience of it rather than its own objective features and, taking its departure from Otto’s work, one approach has been to argue that the feelings of awe which people feel towards God can be, and often are, applied to the
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    Transferring numinous awe to the universe therefore misapplies Otto's framework ...
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