Rudolf Otto and the Foundation of the History of Religions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350259478)

This book provides an up-to-date treatment of Rudolf Otto and his work, placing him in the context of comparative religion, theology, and the philosophy of religion.

Yoshitsugu Sawai shows how Otto has "three faces" the Lutheran Theologian, the Philosopher of Religion, and the Comparative Religionist. The book also shows how, of these, Otto saw himself primarily as a Lutheran Theologian, and provides an account of Otto's engagement with India and the centrality that Hindu theology had on his thinking.
In Otto's theory of religion, his well-known concepts including "wholly other" and "numinous" constitute a multiple structure of meaning. For example, his concept of the "wholly other" (das ganz Andere) no doubt has the meaning of "God" in his Christian theological studies. At the same time, however, from the perspective of comparative religion or the phenomenology of religion, this same term semantically implies the "ultimate reality" of other religious traditions; "Brahman" and "God" (Isvara) in Hindu religious tradition as well as "God" in Christianity.

Author: Yoshitsugu Sawai
ISBN-10: 1350259470
ISBN-13: 9781350259478
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2023
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d