Comment | Och aber "numinous" ist nicht so ungebräuchlich, hier die OED-Zitate seit 1950:
1951 J. L. Adams tr. Tillich's Protestant Era p. xxxix, Protestants+often are unaware of the numinous power inherent in genuine symbols. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 602/5 He now urges us+to transfer finally our more numinous speculations from the altar to the earth, to the observable universe and to all its children. 1962 Listener 17 May, Simple English exchanges that caught the suburban yet numinous quality of the original French. 1967 G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 62, I want to draw attention to+the recurrent acknowledgement by poets+that music is the deeper, more numinous code, that language+aspires to the condition of music. 1969 New Scientist 17 Apr. 114/1 There is a growing revolt of young people against what they call materialism+because they want to take seriously the experience of the inner life—in particular, experience of the ‘numinous’ and of ‘immortal longings’. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Mar. 365/4 Homer reveals the world of gods as well as the world of men, both in epic verse, and this difference from later, more numinous writers has many consequences. 1972 S. W. Sykes in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind II. vi. 154 [Rudolf] Otto defined numinous as the non-rational mystery behind religion, which is both awesome and fascinating. It is, he asserted, the permanent and essential feature of all religion, including Christianity.
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