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“Both imaginative Myth, when developed into a system, and intellectualist Scholasticism, when worked out to its completion, are methods by which the fundamental fact of religious experience is, as it were, simply rolled out so thin and flat as to be finally eliminated altogether.”

Quote by Rudolf Otto

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The Idea of the Holy

This book delves into the profound and complex nature of the sacred, examining its role and significance across different belief systems and intellectual traditions. more

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Rudolf Otto
Rudolf Otto

Rudolf Otto, a German philosopher born on September 25, 1869, and died on March 6, 1937. He is known for his work in the field of religious philosophy, particularly for his profound analysis of the nature of religious experience. more

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