@article{ref1,
title="Romantism, amazement, imagination--A trias religiosa",
journal="Religions (Basel)",
year="2018",
author="Van Praag, H.M.",
volume="9",
number="1",
pages="-",
abstract="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. © 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2077-1444",
doi="10.3390/rel9010018",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel9010018"
}