Forward by the Author to the First English Edition
1. The Rational and the Non-Rational
- 2. 'Numen' and the 'Numinous'
- 3. The Elements in the 'Numinous'
- 5. The Analysis of 'Mysterium'
- 6. The Element of Fascination
- 7. Analogies and Associated Feelings
- 8. The Holy as a Category of Value
- 9. Means of Expression of the Numinous
- 10. The Numinous in the Old Testament
- 11. The Numinous in the New Testament
- 12. The Numinous in Luther
- 13. The Two Processes of Development
- 14. The Holy as an A Priori Category
- 15. Its Earliest Manifestations
- 16. The 'Cruder' Phases
- 17. The Holy as an A Priori Category
- 18. The Manifestations of the 'Holy' and the faculty of 'Divination'
- 19. Divination in Primitive Christianity
- 20. Divination in Christianity To-day
- 21. History and the A Priori in Religion: Summary and Conclusion
Appendixes. I. Chrysostom on the Inconceivable in God
- II. The Numinous in Poetry, Hymn, and Liturgy
- III. Original Numinous Sounds
- IV. 'Spirit' and 'Soul' as Numinous Entities
- V. The Supra-Personal in the Numinous
- VI. The Mystical Element in Luther's Conception of Faith
- IX. A Numinous Experience of John Ruskin
- X. The Expression of the Numinous in English
- XI. The Mysterlum Tremendum in Robertson and Watts
- XII. The Resurrection as a Spiritual Experience
- XIII. Religious Essays, A Supplement to The Idea of the Holy (O.U.P.) : table of contents.