A SEARCH OF NUMINOUS SIGN. TENSION AT THE LIMIT OF THE SACRED AS A FORERUNNER FOR BREAKTHROUGH-AT-MEANING
A SEARCH OF NUMINOUS SIGN. TENSION AT THE LIMIT OF THE SACRED AS A FORERUNNER FOR BREAKTHROUGH-AT-MEANING
Author(s): Alexandru-Ioan CândaSubject(s): Anthropology, Systematic Theology, Phenomenology, Ontology
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Phenomenology of religion; numinous; limit; sign; meaning;
Summary/Abstract: In the given present, man finds himself not only as a participant in fortunate events, but also as the first actor in disruptive situations in the form of constraining-anguishing realities that require both psychological adaptation and protection mechanisms in the face of the new reality, as well as changes in volitional intimate structure that will impose new conceptual positions. This changed settlement in the new reality will lead not only to an adaptation to conjunctures, but especially to an opening to the numinous. Thus, sensing the indicators of the presence of the numinous to reach a contact with the numinous reality becomes a significant aspect especially through an awareness of positioning at the limit of the sacred. Noticing the numinous, man lets himself not only to a co-presence of interaction, but above all to a fusion – of a numinous inclusion – which will open the possibility of breaking through to a new existential meaning. Interpreted according to this possibility, the disruptive event becomes a necessity to open the way to a numinous that not only manifests itself but, interacts and – above all – facilitates the experience of new numinous realities.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2024
- Issue No: 37
- Page Range: 400-406
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English