The idea of the holy : an inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the rational.

First edition (ten impressions) 1923.. Printed in Great Britain.

1 The rational and the non-rational. 2 'Numen' and the 'Numinous'. 3 The elements in the 'numinous' creature-feeling. 4 The mysterium tremendum. 5 The analysis of 'Mysterium'. 6 The element of fascination. 7 Analogies and associated feelings. 8 The holy as a category of value. 9 Means of expression of the numinous. 10 The numinous in the Old Testament. 11 The numinous in the New Testament. 12 The numinous in Luther. 13 The two processes of development. 14 The holy as an A Priori Category, part 1. 15 Its earliest manifestations. 16 The 'cruder' phases. 17 The holy as an A Priori category, part 2. 18 The manifestations of the holy and the faculty of divination. 19 Divination in primitive Christianity. 20 Divination in Christianity today. 21 History and the A Priori in religion: summary and conclusion

'The irrational is today a favourite theme of all who are too lazy to think or too ready to evade the arduous duty of clarifying their ideas and grounding their convictions on a basis of coherent thought. This book, recognizing the profound import of the non-rational for metaphysic, makes a serious attempt to analyse all the more exactly the feeling which remains where the concept fails, and to introduce a terminology which is not any the more loose or indeterminate for having necessarily to make use of symbols. Before I ventured upon this field of inquiry I spent many years of study upon the rational aspect of that supreme Reality we call God, and the results of my work are contained in my books, Naturalietische und religiose Weltantacid (E ng. Tr. Naturalism and Religion, London, 1907), and Die Kant-friesisclie Religions-Philosophic. And I feel that no one ought to concern himself with the Numen ineflabile who has not already devoted assiduous and serious study to the Ratio aeterna.'

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