![]() ![]() ![]() Schleiermacher recognized that the religious dependence was different from the other forms, and suggested the difference was between absolute and relative dependence. Schleiermacher focused on the "feeling of dependence," and while important, Otto believes this feeling is not unique to numinous experience: such as when one recognizes one is determined by societal circumstances and the environment (think of people's judgments about their power to change during economic depressions). Solemn worship no doubt shares common features with being morally uplifted, with feelings of "gratitude, trust, love, reliance, humble submission, and dedication." But solemn worship is not exhausted by these terms there is something in the being "rapt" that is more. Otto takes one moment of numinous experience, that of solemn worship, and tries to isolate what is unique about it. While not blameworthy, the ignorant often view aesthetics in terms of sensuous pleasure and religion as a funtion of gregarious instinct, but an artist will decline such a theory, and the religious uncompromisingly dismiss it. If this cannot be done, Otto requests the reader to go no further. ![]() Summary: Otto asks the reader to direct himself towards a moment of what he would believe to be a quintessentially religious moment. ![]()
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