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-idea i...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8825caec9740416f8b6e3533615c5e922022-12-22T03:47:56ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442018-01-01911810.3390/rel9010018rel9010018Romantism, Amazement, Imagination—A trias religiosaHerman M. van Praag0Maastricht University, Minderbroedersberg 4-6, 6211 LK Maastricht, The NetherlandsTo 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.http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/1/18wonderimaginationromanticismreligiosityGod-ideasuicide |
| spellingShingle | Herman M. van Praag Romantism, Amazement, Imagination—A trias religiosa Religions wonder imagination romanticism religiosity God-idea suicide |
| title | Romantism, Amazement, Imagination—A trias religiosa |
| title_full | Romantism, Amazement, Imagination—A trias religiosa |
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| title_short | Romantism, Amazement, Imagination—A trias religiosa |
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| topic | wonder imagination romanticism religiosity God-idea suicide |
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