Rudolf Otto and the Concept of Holiness
Melissa Raphael
Abstract
This book presents a critical examination of the central contribution to the twentieth-century concept of holiness made by the German Protestant Rudolf Otto (1869–1937). Whereas Otto's work has usually been studied from a phenomenological perspective, this book is original in offering theological arguments for Otto's idea of the holy becoming an anchor concept of contemporary theistic discourse. The book analyses the scholarly context that shaped Otto's concept of holiness and, finding that the theological significance of the latter has been overlooked, discusses the relation of the numinous a ... More
Keywords: holiness, Rudolf Otto, divine personality, morality, religious experience, emancipatory theology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1997 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198269328 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269328.001.0001 |
