Rudolf Otto

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Rudolf Otto was a German Lutheran theologian and religious scholar best known for his influential work "The Idea of the Holy," in which he analyzed the concept of the numinous and the non-rational aspects of religious experience.

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instanceOf German person
Lutheran theologian
human
religious scholar
theologian
academicDegree doctorate in theology
academicDiscipline Protestant theology
citizenship German Empire
Weimar Republic
comparativeStudy Christian mysticism and Hindu mysticism
countryOfBirth Germany
Kingdom of Prussia
linked to: Prussia
countryOfDeath Germany
dateOfBirth 1869-09-25
dateOfDeath 1937-03-06
educatedAt University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
University of Göttingen
employer University of Breslau
University of Göttingen
University of Marburg
familyName Otto
fieldOfWork philosophy of religion
religious studies
theology
gender male
givenName Rudolf
influenced C. S. Lewis
Karl Barth
Mircea Eliade
Ninian Smart
Paul Tillich
comparative religion
influencedBy Friedrich Schleiermacher
Immanuel Kant
Jakob Friedrich Fries
knownFor analysis of the numinous in religious experience
concept of the holy as non-rational and sui generis
languageOfWork German
mainConcept mysterium tremendum et fascinans
the numinous
mainInterest non-rational aspects of religious experience
movement dialectical theology
phenomenology of religion
notableWork The Idea of the Holy
originalTitleOfWork Das Heilige
linked to: Die Heilige
placeOfBirth Peine
placeOfDeath Marburg
positionHeld professor of history of religion
professor of systematic theology
publicationYear 1917
religion Lutheranism
studied Immanuel Kant
Jakob Friedrich Fries
wrote Mysticism East and West
Naturalism and Religion
The Philosophy of Religion Based on Kant and Fries

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Gifford Lectures notableLecturer Rudolf Otto
Henry Corbin influencedBy Rudolf Otto