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    Rudolf Otto (25 September 1869 – 7 March 1937) was an eminent German Lutheran theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist. He is regarded as...
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  • was given its present sense by the German theologian and philosopher Rudolf Otto in his influential 1917 German book The Idea of the Holy. He also used...
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    Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (14 May 1832 – 7 October 1903) was a German mathematician who made contributions to mathematical analysis (where he gave...
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    (focusing on the explanatory value of religion for its adherents), by Rudolf Otto (focusing on the importance of religious experience, more specifically...
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  • philosopher Rudolf Otto, published in 1917. It argues that the defining element of the holy is the experience of a phenomenon which Otto calls the numinous...
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    forms inspired the viewer with an overwhelming aesthetic sense of awe. Rudolf Otto compared the sublime with his newly coined concept of the numinous. The...
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  • Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton FBA (born Gottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg; 17 August 1921 – 4 December 1994) was a German-born British political and constitutional...
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  • be turned on and off at will. The German philosopher and theologian Rudolf Otto (1869–1937) argues that there is one common factor to all religious experience...
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  • Rudolf Karl Bultmann (German: [ˈbʊltman]; 20 August 1884 – 30 July 1976) was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of the New Testament at the University...
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  • Rudolf Otto (31 August 1887 – 9 September 1962) was a German painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer...
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    Rudolf Otto Neumann (29 June 1868, Seifhennersdorf - 5 April 1952, Hamburg) was a German hygienist. He studied pharmacy and medicine at the Universities...
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    dynasty. When Duke Otto III of Swabia died without male heirs in 1057, Empress Agnes, consort of late Henry III, appointed Rudolf Swabian duke and administrator...
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  • religion appears detrimental. Rudolf Otto (1869–1937) was a German Protestant theologian and scholar of comparative religion. Otto's most famous work, The Idea...
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    Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Otto's brother Franz Ferdinand had snubbed the Saxons by rejecting Maria's elder sister Mathilde. Otto and Maria had...
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  • Otto, American journalist Michael Otto (businessman) (born 1943), German businessman Nicolaus Otto (1832–1891), coinventor of the Otto cycle Rudolf Otto...
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  • April 17, 2012. Kierkegaard, Søren. Philosophical Fragments. Ch. 3 Metz, Rudolf (1938). A Hundred Years of British Philosophy. G. Allen & Unwin Limited...
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  • Otto Rudolf Holmberg (1 February 1874, Simrishamn – 28 December 1930) was a Swedish botanist. He was an authority on Scandinavian flora. Beginning in...
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    Rudolf I (1 May 1218 – 15 July 1291) was the first King of Germany from the House of Habsburg. The first of the count-kings of Germany, he reigned from...
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    Rudolf Otto Anselm Höber (27 December 1873, in Stettin, Germany – 5 September 1953, in Philadelphia, US) was a German physician and physiologist who was...
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    ladder Theophany List of angels in theology Nabulsi, Rachel (May 2023). "Rudolf Otto and the Fearful Numinous: Jacob and Moses Wrestle with the Dangerous...
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  • Nietzsche Harald Høffding William James Vladimir Solovyov Ernst Troeltsch Rudolf Otto Lev Shestov Sergei Bulgakov Pavel Florensky Ernst Cassirer Joseph Maréchal...
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    discovery of this text at Qumran led scholars, such as C. P. van Andel and Rudolf Otto, to believe that while these ancient Aramaic compositions of the book...
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  • "Wholly Other" ("Das ganz Andere"), as in the work of Karl Barth and Rudolf Otto. It implies a personalism with regard to God's self-revelation. Tillich...
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    Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great (German: Otto der Große Italian: Ottone il Grande), or Otto of Saxony (German:...
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    Nietzsche Harald Høffding William James Vladimir Solovyov Ernst Troeltsch Rudolf Otto Lev Shestov Sergei Bulgakov Pavel Florensky Ernst Cassirer Joseph Maréchal...
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    (the fear of offending someone whom one loves). Lutheran theologian Rudolf Otto coined the term numinous to express the type of fear one has for God...
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    both Devendra Varma and S. L. Varnado make reference to the theologian Rudolf Otto, whose concept of the "numinous" was originally used to describe religious...
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    Otto Rudolf Salvisberg (19 October 1882, Köniz – 23 December 1940, Arosa) was a Swiss architect. Between 1905 and 1930 Salvisberg worked in Germany. He...
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  • Nietzsche Harald Høffding William James Vladimir Solovyov Ernst Troeltsch Rudolf Otto Lev Shestov Sergei Bulgakov Pavel Florensky Ernst Cassirer Joseph Maréchal...
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    Otto Robert Frisch OBE FRS (1 October 1904 – 22 September 1979) was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Otto Stern...
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