The Idea of the Holy

first published 1917 public domain

Coined the numinous: the encounter with the holy before any doctrine has words for it.


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translated by John W. Harvey · Oxford University Press · 1923

The 1923 Harvey translation. Published before 1930, it is public domain in the United States, and the main text is now set in the corpus.


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