SVETO RUDOLFA OTTOA I ISLAMSKI MISTICIZAM
RUDOLF OTTO’S THE IDEA OF THE HOLY AND THE ISLAMIC MYSTICISM

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the comparative study of religious and mystical traditions of Islam especially in the work of the eminent German theologian Rodolf Otto. The author emphasizes Otto’s openness to other (non-European and non-Christian) traditions as a standard measure of the spiritual climate of liberal theology as a specific compound of European civic consciousness and evangelical theology of the time. Otto’s understanding of Islam is best to make out from his concept of the numinous experience of the Holy, that is, from his interpretation of God in His Bible core that goes beyond reasonable understanding, the living God, the God of wrath and love and feelings, who throughout his life differs from any mere ‘world mind’, whose essence that is beyond our reason is detached from any philosophizing and rationalizing.

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