SANCTITY
The power, being, or realm understood by religious persons to be at the core of existence and to have a transformative effect on their lives and destinies. Other terms, such as holy, divine, transcendent, ultimate being (or reality), mystery, and perfection (or purity) have been used for this domain. "Sacred" is also an important technical term in the scholarly study and interpretation of religions.
A spectrum of historical development stretches from the earliest concepts of the sacred as a term marking of the fearful domain of Divine power super natural , unpredictable, not to be touched weird. Corresponding to the gradual emergence of concepts of deity as morally perfect the sacred also becomes profoundly moralized. Yet it retains also the note of awesome otherness: God remains the mysterium tremendum et fascinans-the one who inspires both dread and exhilaration beyond reason's grasp. That, in phenomenological terms, hints at the felt quality of 'numinous' experience, as Rudolf Otto wrote of it: the distinctive experience of God at once ineffably transcendent, remote, yet stirring a recognition that here is the primary source of beauty and love.According to the word meanings of sanctity are:
c. protected by superstition or piety from irreligious actions
d. connected with or intended for religious use: sacred music
Although appeal to such experience, by no means uncommon, will hardly amount (on its own) to a 'proof' of the existence of God, philosophy of religion must take heed of it In inquring how values moral and non moral are related to God's nature, and in attempts to rework cosmological ('contingency') arguments for God's existence as the world's incessantly sustaining uncaused cause. It cannot ignore a striking experiential correlate. Relevant to aesthetics, also, is the striking parallel between the duality (dread and fascination) of numinous experience and the fearful delight of many accounts of the sublime.
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