Let’s consider Beetle’s response to my essay “Perceiving the transcendent God through transcending entities“. While I don’t agree with most of what Beetle says, it is a concise, well written representation of many standard criticisms and thus it is worth our time to critique it carefully. Beetle begins with a conciliatory statement that conceals a […]
mysterium tremendum
Rock stars finding God in church (but not like you think)
How do people experience God? A century ago Rudolf Otto famously analyzed one type of experience as what he called the sense of the numinous, that is the encounter with a transcendent, holy other. Otto analyzed this experience as having two dimensions. To begin with, there is the “mysterium tremendum” which includes a sense of fear, awe, and of […]
