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Religion and the Sacred |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE SACRED AND THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY |
| Author: Thomas Molnar |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 3,334 Words, 18,701 Characters |
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I see that my fellow lecturers have prepared a text and I alone will speak from notes. I am speaking from notes because I am presently writing a book on politics and the sacred, and I could not envisage sitting down and writing a paper for this symposium, because I would probably end up writing another book. Therefore, please permit me simply to tell you some of the things I'm thinking about the sacred in relation to religion.
We speak of the sacred primarily in a religious context. I do not necessarily believe in defining terms, but I would like to give a formulation of the sacred. I would call it the channel through which the transcendent or divine communicates with man. This communication is not only rational. It is much more because it addresses itself to man who is a sensa...
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...alization. This is something that must come because our modern and post-modern age has become too difficult for the soul, for the imagination, and for the kind of intimate living together that mankind has always been able to establish with the transcendent through the sacredness of objects. This has disappeared, and it has to be taken into consideration in the process of resacralization. vbcrlf
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