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RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND THE ART OF EL GRECO AND STANLEY SPENCER
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RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND THE ART OF EL GRECO AND STANLEY SPENCER - WHAT WOULD JAMES, STACE, OTTO, GREELEY AND SWINBURNE SAY? Rudolph Otto used the word 'numinous'. He said it was meant to describe 'The deepest and most fundamental element in all strong and sincerely felt religious emotion.' It may be peaceful and 'come sweeping like a gentle tide, pervading the mind with a tranquil mood of deepest worship' or could be faster moving 'thrillingly vibrant and resonant, until at last it dies away and the soul resumes its 'profane', non-religious mood of everyday experience' William James used four words to describe features of religious experience. These were Ineffability, Noetic, Transiency and Passivity. Ineffability is the inability to describe an experience as it is so amazing. Noetic is knowledge gained through intuition. The opposite of this is empirical which means that it can be proven with facts. Transiency is a breif experience. Passivity is...
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