He was a 2007 and 2010 Shirley Jackson Award winner for his collections " The Imago Sequence and Other Stories " and " Occultation and Other Stories " . " Mysterium Tremendum " won a 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella.
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He was also the recipient of composition commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts ( Symphony No . 1 ), Chamber Music America ( " Tanguy Music " ), the Seattle Symphony ( " In Mysterium Tremendum " ), and from numerous local organizations such as Seattle Men's Chorus, Seattle Choral Company, St . James Cathedral, Opus 7, Seattle Pro Musica, the Esoterics and the Cascadian Chorale.
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Many Christians and Jews endorse Rudolf Otto's description of the sacred as'mysterium tremendum et fascinans', the awe-inspiring mystery which fascinates humans . [ dubious discuss ] The orthodox Catholic writer G . K . Chesterton regularly employed paradox to tease out the meanings in common concepts which he found ambiguous, or to reveal meaning often overlooked or forgotten in common phrases . ( The title of one of his most famous books, Orthodoxy, itself employing such a paradox .)
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Trembling, like weeping, concerns a response whose cause is deeply mysterious yet exceedingly intimate, " the cause closest to our body . " ( 47 ) From the body, Derrida shifts registers to God, and remarks that the cause of the trembling in the mysterium tremendum is " the gift of infinite love . . . We fear and tremble before the inaccessible secret of a God who decides for us although we remain responsible, that is, free to decide, to work, to assume our life and our death . " ( 48)
