Every Day God: Encountering the Holy in World and Worship

Western man has lost, it is argued, his sense of religious dread, of awe at the numinous, and with it a whole dimension of human experience. He is no longer aware of the holy. But is this claim entirely true? Is holiness a matter of the numinous, of awe and religious dread? Might not the holy now be encountered under a different form? Professor Davies is convinced that man can and does still encounter the holy, but that he does so in and through, and not apart from the world, taking world t...