German Lutheran theologian and philosopher of religion. Coined the term 'numinous' to describe the non-rational, awe-inducing core of religious experience — the mysterium tremendum et fascinans.
The concept of the numinous as a sui generis category of human experience; the holy as that which simultaneously terrifies and fascinates.
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