And although they remain overwhelmingly pro-life, nearly one-third of them voted for Mr Obama, suggesting greater willingness to vote for a candidate who believes that abortion must remain a matter of choice.Then there are the more numinous trends.
Many nominal Christians do not hold these beliefs, while many of the unaffiliated do.No politician, in either Britain or America, could build a career on appealing to numinous beliefs of the non-aligned.
There is no escape.While considerations of fairness often play an important role in literal negotiation, I think fairness-talk in political discourse is generally part of more numinous negotiation over the meaning of fairness itself.
The failure of Britain's democracy is further disguised by the numinous halls and the hallowed procedures of the palace of Westminster itself.The diminishing of parliamentThe gap between democratic appearances and tyrannical fact is wide.
ON A boat gliding its way down an undulating peninsula where the dense virgin woods are crowned by a numinous marble peak, the atmosphere is carefree.
Govan Old Church is certainly a numinous location.
Attempts have been made to find a distinctive ingredient in all religions, such as the numinous, or spiritual, experience, the contrast between the sacred and the profane, and the belief in one or more gods.
The relation between the spiritual and the numinous is comparable to the relation between a beautiful object and an aesthetic experience of the object by someone.
But there was another side to him what Paul Claudel called his "panic contemplation" of the universe, the numinous fear that penetrates his sombre poems La Fin de Satan and Dieu.
When experience of the spiritual is heartfelt, the spiritual is found to be mysterious, awesome, urgent, and fascinating what the German theologian and historian of religion Rudolf Otto called "numinous".
(Levine 1994, ch.2.2) For Rudolf Otto, (1917) whatever is holy or 'numinous' is so characterised on the basis of our non-rational, non-sensory experience of it rather than its own objective features and, taking its departure from Otto's work, one approach has been to argue that the feelings of awe which people feel towards God can be, and often are, applied to the universe itself.
