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clement
10-26-2007, 04:33 PM
Rudolf Otto: The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and Its Relation to the Rational (1917)

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=7672630 (Please let me know if this link is publicly available, or only available within campus-networks)

CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION ix

NOTE ON APPENDIXES, & C xx

FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR (TO FIRST ENGLISH EDITION) xxi

I. THE RATIONAL AND THE NON-RATIONAL 1

II. 'NUMEN' AND THE 'NUMINOUS' 5

III. THE ELEMENTS IN THE 'NUMINOUS'

Creature-feeling 8

IV. MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM

THE ANALYSIS OF 'TREMENDUM' 12

1. The Element of Awefulness 13

2. The Element of 'Overpoweringness' 19

3. The Element of 'Energy' or Urgency 23

V. THE ANALYSIS OF 'MYSTERIUM'

4. The 'Wholly Other' 25

VI. 5. THE ELEMENT OF FASCINATION 31

VII. ANALOGIES AND ASSOCIATED FEELINGS 41

The Law of the Association of Feelings 42

Schematization 45

VIII. THE HOLY AS A CATEGORY OF VALUE:

Sin and Atonement 50

IX. MEANS OF EXPRESSION OF THE NUMINOUS:

1. Direct Means 60

2. Indirect Means 61

3. Means by which the Numinous is expressed
in Art 65

X. THE NUMINOUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 72

XI. THE NUMINOUS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 82

XII. THE NUMINOUS IN LUTHER 94

XIII. THE TWO PROCESSES OF DEVELOPMENT 109

XIV. THE HOLY AS AN A PRIORI CATEGORY. PART I 112

XV. ITS EARLIEST MANIFESTATIONS 117

XVI. THE 'CRUDER' PHASES 132

XVII. THE HOLY AS AN A PRIORI CATEGORY. PART II 136

XVIII. THE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE 'HOLY' AND THE
FACULTY OF 'DIVINATION' 143

XIX. DIVINATION IN PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY 155

XX. DIVINATION IN CHRISTIANITY TO-DAY 162

XXI. HISTORY AND THE A PRIORI IN RELIGION: SUMMARY
AND CONCLUSION 175

clement
10-26-2007, 04:38 PM
本書可譽為宗教現象學不朽之作,而當中又有對傳統神學作一種解讀。當年,胡塞爾、海德格爾、舍勒看罷,也讚嘆不絕,當然這不表示他們完全接納奧托的見解,但奧托指明了一條研究方向。沒有證據顯示奧托本身受到現象學運動的任何影響,但這也不排除本書對於宗教現象研究的重要地位。

本書值得慢慢細讀。

對於對神學有興趣的人來說,可以追問的一個問題是,到底奧托後半部分對神學所作的解讀,是否多餘可以丟掉,是否傳統思維的框限?還是奧托的神學解讀其實不可以跟其前半部分的宗教現象分析分離開來?