Romantism, Amazement, Imagination—A trias religiosa

To wonder is a gift of the romanticist in particular. Wonder seeks explanation. If reason doesn't provide that, imagination provides a way out. One imagines a transcendental world of which the God-idea may become the central point and the explanatory model of that that invoked wonder. The God-i...

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Main Author: Praag, Herman M. van 1929- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-7
Further subjects:B Imagination
B Romanticism
B Suicide
B Religiosity
B Wonder
B God-idea
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Summary:To wonder is a gift of the romanticist in particular. Wonder seeks explanation. If reason doesn't provide that, imagination provides a way out. One imagines a transcendental world of which the God-idea may become the central point and the explanatory model of that that invoked wonder. The God-idea implies wonder, wonder that live exists, that things exist at all. Wonder promotes religiosity—i.c., the need to provide life with a vertical dimension—and religiosity facilitates, in its turn, wonder. Thus the circle is closed: romanticism, wonder, imagination, religiosity, wonder. A circle providing life with an important bonus, i.e., sense, meaning with a supernatural signature. This augments the chance that hope will be preserved, even as dark clouds begin to hover above one's life.
ISSN:2077-1444
Contains:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel9010018