Numinous Quiz

Who popularized the word 'numinous' in the early twentieth century?

• Aldous Huxley

• Mircea Eliade

• Carl Jung

• Rudolf Otto

What is the meaning of 'tremendum' in the numinous experience?

• Tendency to invoke fear and trembling

• Quality of fascinans

• Quality of communion

• Tendency to attract

According to Rudolf Otto, what is the personal quality of the numinous experience?

• Feeling of separateness

• Feeling of attraction

• Feeling of fear

• Feeling of communion with a wholly other

Who frequently quoted the concept of numinous as understood by Rudolf Otto?

• Carl Jung

• Mircea Eliade

• C. S. Lewis

• Aldous Huxley

What is 'mysterium tremendum' as described in The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley?

• Fear due to in-compatibility between man's egotism and the divine purity

• Fear due to the infinity of God

• Fear due to the self-aggravated separateness

• Fear due to the pains and terrors overwhelming those who have come face to face with some manifestation of the mysterium tremendum

What is the source language of the word 'numinous'?

• French

• English

• Latin

• German

What is the quality of 'fascinans' in the numinous experience?

• Quality of communion with a wholly other

• Quality of fascinans

• Tendency to invoke fear and trembling

• Tendency to attract

What can the numinous experience lead to in different cases?

• All of the above

• Belief in the sacred

• Belief in the supernatural

• Belief in deities

Who used the notion of the numinous and the wholly other in their religious studies?

• Mircea Eliade

• Carl Jung

• Aldous Huxley

• C. S. Lewis

What is the title of Rudolf Otto's influential book?

• The Numinous Experience

• The Idea of the Holy

• The Doors of Perception

• Das Heilige